Optical Power Commissioning Method, Commissioning System, Control Device, and Commissioning Station

ABSTRACT

This application provides an optical power commissioning method, a commissioning system, a control device, and a commissioning station. The commissioning system includes a control device and one or more commissioning stations. The method includes the control device first identifies one or more to-be-commissioned services on which optical power commissioning needs to be performed, the control device sends, based on the to-be-commissioned service, commissioning information to the one or more commissioning stations on which the to-be-commissioned service passes through, where the one or more commissioning stations perform parallel optical power commissioning based on the commissioning information, and the one or more commissioning stations perform optical power commissioning based on the commissioning information. According to this application, a plurality of services and a plurality of commissioning stations can be commissioned concurrently.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of International Application No.PCT/CN2020/140048, filed on Dec. 28, 2020, which claims priority toChinese Patent Application No. 202010374475.2, filed on May 6, 2020. Thedisclosures of the aforementioned applications are hereby incorporatedby reference in their entireties.

TECHNICAL FIELD

This application relates to the communication field, and morespecifically, to an optical power commissioning method, a commissioningsystem, a control device, and a commissioning station.

BACKGROUND

In an optical communication network, when service performance isdegraded, power commissioning needs to be performed on a wavelengthservice. For example, if the service performance is degraded due tooptical fiber cutover, optical fiber degradation, intra-stationinsertion loss degradation, and an improper manual operation, powercommissioning needs to be performed on the wavelength service.

An existing commissioning manner is serial step-by-step commissioningbased on an optical multiplex section (OMS) of a service, that is,manually selecting a to-be-commissioned service and performingdistributed serial power commissioning. Specifically, from a servicesource to a sink, serial small-step commissioning is performed based onthe OMS, to traverse to-be-commissioned services and affected services.To ensure security of an old-wavelength service, small-step trial anderror commissioning is performed based on a current network power value.For a single OMS, a multiplexed wavelength of a primary optical path isfirst commissioned, and then a single wavelength is commissioned. Inaddition, to reduce impact on the old wavelength, small-step trial anderror commissioning is performed, so that optical power of theold-wavelength service is locked. If the optical power fails to belocked, single-step rollback is performed. In the commissioning process,it is further monitored whether a bit error ratio (BER) exceeds athreshold.

In the existing commissioning manner, the to-be-commissioned serviceneeds to be manually selected, and serial feedback commissioning,specifically, trial and error commissioning, small-step commissioning,and the manner of repeatedly monitoring whether the BER of the serviceexceeds the threshold, is performed based on a service path and the OMS.Therefore, device interaction is frequently performed, commissioningscenarios are limited, and commissioning efficiency is low.

SUMMARY

This application provides an optical power commissioning method, acommissioning system, a control device, and a commissioning station,which can implement quick and automatic parallel commissioning andimprove commissioning efficiency and can be further applied to morecommissioning scenarios.

According to a first aspect, an optical power commissioning method isprovided. The method may be performed by a commissioning system, or maybe performed by a chip or a circuit configured in the commissioningsystem. This is not limited in this application.

The commissioning system includes a control device and N commissioningstations, and the method includes the control device determines Mto-be-commissioned services on which optical power commissioning needsto be performed. M is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The controldevice sends commissioning information to the N commissioning stationsbased on the M to-be-commissioned services. The commissioninginformation is used by the N commissioning stations to perform paralleloptical power commissioning. The N commissioning stations are stationson which the M to-be-commissioned services are located, and N is aninteger greater than or equal to 1. The N commissioning stations performoptical power commissioning based on the commissioning information.

For example, the M to-be-commissioned services correspond to X opticalmultiplex sections OMSs, and X is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

For example, at least one of M, N, and X is an integer greater than 1.For example, N is greater than 1. For example, the control device maydetermine one to-be-commissioned service, and the to-be-commissionedservice passes through a plurality of commissioning stations. Foranother example, the control device may determine a plurality ofto-be-commissioned services, and the plurality of to-be-commissionedservices pass through a plurality of commissioning stations.

For example, the control device may further perform commissioning byidentifying a primary optical path. Specifically, the control deviceidentifies that optical performance data of M primary optical paths isabnormal. The control device sends commissioning information to Ncommissioning stations based on the foregoing exception data. Thecommissioning information is used by the N commissioning stations toperform parallel optical power commissioning. The N commissioningstations are stations on which the M primary optical paths are located,and both M and N are integers greater than or equal to 1. The Ncommissioning stations perform optical power commissioning based on thecommissioning information.

Based on the foregoing technical solution, parallel commissioning may beimplemented. The control device may first identify a service or aprimary optical path on which optimization commissioning needs to beperformed, and then send commissioning information to each commissioningstation based on the service or the primary optical path on whichoptimization commissioning needs to be performed, so that thecommissioning stations can perform parallel commissioning based on thecommissioning information. The control device may control a plurality ofservices, a plurality of faults (in other words, optimizationcommissioning needs to be performed on the plurality of services), and aplurality commissioning stations together, so that automatic parallelmulti-service, multi-OMS section, and multi-commissioning stationoptimization commissioning can be implemented, and a multi-service,multi-optical path, and multi-fault scenario can be supported. This isapplicable to more commissioning scenarios. In addition, optimizationcommissioning can be quickly performed, and as many commissioningstations as possible can perform parallel commissioning, so thatoptimization commissioning efficiency is improved, and a requirement ofa customer for quick and automatic optimization commissioning is met tothe greatest extent. It should be noted that, in this application, thesolution is described based on a scenario in which parallel opticalpower commissioning is performed based on a to-be-commissioned service,but this should not constitute a limitation on the application scope ofthis application. For example, this application may be further appliedto a scenario in which the control device performs parallelcommissioning based on an exception of a primary optical path.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the firstaspect, the method further includes the control device receives serviceoptical performance data reported by W stations. W is an integer greaterthan or equal to 1. That the control device determines Mto-be-commissioned services on which optical power commissioning needsto be performed includes the control device determines the Mto-be-commissioned services based on the service optical performancedata reported by the W stations.

For example, W may be equal to N, or W may be greater than N.

For example, the W stations may include the N commissioning stations,that is, the N commissioning stations may actively report serviceoptical performance data. Alternatively, the stations may include someof the commissioning stations. After determining the Mto-be-commissioned services, the control device determines the Ncommissioning stations through which the M to-be-commissioned servicespass.

For example, the optical performance data may include but is not limitedto input/output multiplexed-wavelength optical power of an opticalamplifier board, single-wavelength optical power, an optical amplifiergain, an electrical variable optical attenuator (EVOA) loss value, and aservice bit error ratio (BER).

Based on the foregoing technical solution, the control device maymonitor network-wide service optical performance data in real time,analyze the monitored service optical performance data, and determinethe services on which optimization commissioning needs to be performed.In this way, quick and automatic optimization commissioning can beimplemented, manual intervention is avoided, and operation andmaintenance are simplified.

With reference to the first aspect, in some implementations of the firstaspect, that the control device sends commissioning information to the Ncommissioning stations includes the control device sends commissioninginformation to the N commissioning stations T times, so that the Ncommissioning stations perform parallel optical power commissioningbased on commissioning information received each time. T is an integergreater than or equal to 1. The method further includes the Ncommissioning stations feed back commissioning responses to the controldevice after performing each time of optical power commissioning, andthe control device queries real-time optical power information of the Mto-be-commissioned services and an affected service based on thecommissioning responses; or the N commissioning stations feed backcommissioning responses to the control device after performing a T1^(th)time of optical power commissioning, and the control device queriesreal-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissioned servicesand an affected service based on the commissioning responses, where T1is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to T; or any one ofthe N commissioning stations feeds back a commissioning response to thecontrol device after a cumulative adjustment amount of the commissioningstation reaches a first threshold, and the control device queriesreal-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissioned servicesand an affected service based on the commissioning response; or the Ncommissioning stations feed back commissioning responses to the controldevice after a total cumulative adjustment amount of the N commissioningstations reaches a second threshold, and the control device queriesreal-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissioned servicesand an affected service based on the commissioning responses.

For example, after each time of commissioning, the control device mayquery the related optical power information of the to-be-commissionedservice and the affected service. This solution may be used when T isgreater than or equal to 1. When T is equal to 1, it indicates thatafter the commissioning station completes commissioning, the controldevice queries the related optical power information of theto-be-commissioned service and the affected service. When T is greaterthan 1, it indicates that during a plurality of times of commissioning,the control device queries the related optical power information of theto-be-commissioned service and the affected service after each time ofcommissioning performed by the commissioning station. In this solution,a commissioning result can be monitored in real time, so that overallcommissioning efficiency can be improved, and unnecessary commissioningand time costs and calculation costs caused by unnecessary commissioningcan be reduced.

For another example, the control device queries the related opticalpower information of the to-be-commissioned service and the affectedservice when a specific condition is met (for example, based on aquantity of commissioning times or a commissioning amount). For example,this solution may be used when T is greater than 1. In this example,small-step commissioning may be used during each time of commissioning,so that an excessively large adjustment amount of a single time ofcommissioning can be avoided, and commissioning security can beimproved. In addition, time costs and calculation costs caused byfrequently querying real-time optical power by the control device canalso be reduced. Especially, when a network topology is relatively largeand a span of network elements through which a to-be-commissionedservice and an affected service pass is relatively large, an automaticparallel optimization commissioning manner in which a plurality of timesof small-step delivery commissioning are performed for each station andfeedback is performed when a specific condition (for example, after aspecific commissioning amount is reached through accumulation) is met isconsidered, to reduce time of querying real-time optical power by thecontrol device a plurality of times.

According to a second aspect, an optical power commissioning method isprovided. The method may be performed by a control device, or may beperformed by a chip or a circuit configured in the control device. Thisis not limited in this application.

The method may include the control device determines Mto-be-commissioned services on which optical power commissioning needsto be performed. M is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The controldevice sends commissioning information to N commissioning stations basedon the M to-be-commissioned services. The commissioning information isused by the N commissioning stations to perform parallel optical powercommissioning. The N commissioning stations are stations on which the Mto-be-commissioned services are located, and N is an integer greaterthan or equal to 1.

Based on the foregoing technical solution, parallel commissioning may beimplemented. The control device may first identify a service on whichoptimization commissioning needs to be performed, and then sendcommissioning information to each commissioning station based on theservice on which optimization commissioning needs to be performed, sothat the commissioning stations can perform parallel commissioning basedon the commissioning information. The control device may control aplurality of services, a plurality of faults (in other words,optimization commissioning needs to be performed on the plurality ofservices), and a plurality commissioning stations together, so thatautomatic parallel multi-service, multi-OMS section, andmulti-commissioning station optimization commissioning can beimplemented, and a multi-service and multi-fault scenario can besupported. This is applicable to more commissioning scenarios. Inaddition, optimization commissioning can be quickly performed, and asmany commissioning stations as possible can perform parallelcommissioning, so that optimization commissioning efficiency isimproved, and a requirement of a customer for quick and automaticoptimization commissioning is met to the greatest extent.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of thesecond aspect, the method further includes the control device receivesservice optical performance data reported by W stations. W is an integergreater than or equal to 1. That the control device determines Mto-be-commissioned services on which optical power commissioning needsto be performed includes the control device determines the Mto-be-commissioned services based on the service optical performancedata reported by the W stations.

With reference to the second aspect, in some implementations of thesecond aspect, that the control device sends commissioning informationto N commissioning stations includes the control device sendscommissioning information to the N commissioning stations T times, sothat the N commissioning stations perform parallel optical powercommissioning based on commissioning information received each time. Tis an integer greater than or equal to 1. The method further includes,after each time of optical power commissioning performed by the Ncommissioning stations, receiving a commissioning response fed back byeach commissioning station, and querying real-time optical powerinformation of the M to-be-commissioned services and an affectedservice; or after the N commissioning stations perform a T1^(th) time ofoptical power commissioning, receiving a commissioning response fed backby each commissioning station, and querying real-time optical powerinformation of the M to-be-commissioned services and an affectedservice, where T1 is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equal toT; or after a cumulative adjustment amount of any one of the Ncommissioning stations reaches a first threshold, receiving acommissioning response fed back by each commissioning station, andquerying real-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissionedservices and an affected service; or after a total cumulative adjustmentamount of the N commissioning stations reaches a second threshold,receiving a commissioning response fed back by each commissioningstation, and querying real-time optical power information of the Mto-be-commissioned services and an affected service.

With reference to the first aspect or the second aspect, in someimplementations, the M to-be-commissioned services correspond to Xoptical multiplex sections OMSs, and X is an integer greater than orequal to 1. Before the control device sends the commissioninginformation to the N commissioning stations, the method further includesthe control device calculates at least one of the following of each ofthe X OMSs: an absolute total multiplexed-wavelength adjustment amount,an absolute total single-wavelength adjustment amount, and a relativeadjustment amount of each commissioning station.

For example, the absolute total multiplexed-wavelength adjustment amountis a difference between an optical amplifier gain and amultiplexed-wavelength loss.

For example, the absolute total single-wavelength adjustment amount is avalue obtained by subtracting actual single-wavelength optical powerfrom target single-wavelength optical power.

For example, a relative adjustment amount of each commissioning stationis an absolute total adjustment amount of the commissioning stationminus a cumulative adjustment amount of upstream commissioning stationsof the commissioning station.

Based on the foregoing technical solution, considering multi-serviceparallel commissioning, the control device may calculate a totaladjustment amount of an OMS section, and then may determine anadjustment amount of each commissioning station. In addition,considering that service-upstream optical power changes after beingcommissioned and service-downstream optical power also changesaccordingly, through a hedge of upstream and downstream adjustmentamounts, an adjustment amount of a downstream station may be anadjustment amount of optical power of each wavelength of the downstreamstation minus a cumulative adjustment amount of all preceding OMSs, andno separate cutoff operation needs to be performed.

With reference to the first aspect or the second aspect, in someimplementations, before the control device sends the commissioninginformation to the N commissioning stations, the method further includesthe control device calculates at least one of the following informationof each of the N commissioning stations: a multiplexed-wavelengthoptical power adjustment amount and a single-wavelength optical poweradjustment amount.

Based on the foregoing solution, steps of a primary optical path and asingle wavelength are independently calculated and decoupled from eachother, so that repeated calculation of a multiplexed-wavelength poweradjustment amount can be avoided, a quantity of commissioning times canbe reduced, and commissioning efficiency can be further improved.

With reference to the first aspect or the second aspect, in someimplementations, the multiplexed-wavelength optical power adjustmentamount and/or the single-wavelength optical power adjustment amount meetor meets at least one of the following: optical power adjustmentamounts, on a same commissioning station, of to-be-commissioned servicespassing through a same OMS section in the M to-be-commissioned servicesare offset in positive and negative directions is less than or equal toa third threshold, and a co-directional cumulative optical poweradjustment amount of N1 commissioning stations is less than or equal toa fourth threshold. The N1 commissioning stations are commissioningstations on which a same to-be-commissioned service is located, the N1commissioning stations belong to the N commissioning stations, and N1 isan integer greater than or equal to 1.

Based on the foregoing technical solution, a limitation of aco-directional commissioning step of parallel commissioning may beconsidered. Specifically, considering that parallel delivery isperformed for OMS sections based on a minimum step, impact on anotheraffected wavelength is relatively small, and security is high, butcommissioning efficiency is improved to a relatively small extent. Ifparallel delivery is performed for OMS sections based on a maximum step,because commissioning values of commissioning stations do not takeeffect at the same time, service interruption may be caused ifcommissioning values only in a same direction take effect. Therefore, alimitation of a co-directional commissioning step of parallelcommissioning may be considered. In this embodiment of this application,with consideration of impact of commissioning on security of anotherwavelength and a requirement for commissioning performance, paralleldelivery is performed based on OMS sections by considering asingle-station (OMS) step constraint and an inter-station (OCH level)co-directional commissioning step constraint, so that impact on anotherwavelength is controllable, and parallel commissioning performance ishigh.

With reference to the first aspect or the second aspect, in someimplementations, the method further includes the control devicecalculates an optical power adjustment amount of the affected servicebased on degradation amounts of the affected service before and aftercommissioning of the N commissioning stations. The affected servicerepresents a service affected by commissioning of the N commissioningstations.

For example, the optical power adjustment amount of the affected serviceis determined based on a first value and a second value. The first valuerepresents an optical signal-to-noise ratio loss value of the affectedservice before commissioning of the N commissioning stations, and thesecond value represents an optical signal-to-noise ratio loss value ofthe affected service after commissioning of the N commissioningstations.

Based on the foregoing technical solution, impact on an old wavelengthafter commissioning may be evaluated in a commissioning process. Inparticular, when a primary optical path is commissioned, and a faultoccurs on a single wavelength, impact on a status of thesingle-wavelength service that is caused by commissioning the primaryoptical path is evaluated, so that service interruption can be avoided,and commissioning security can be further improved. Specifically, forexample, to protect performance of the affected old wavelength againstdegradation (for example, OSNR degradation), a pre-adjustment amount ofold-wavelength optical power may be calculated by comparingold-wavelength degradation amounts before and after commissioning.

With reference to the first aspect or the second aspect, in someimplementations, the commissioning information includes at least one ofthe following: an optical amplifier gain, an optical amplifier gainadjustment amount, information about the commissioning station, anelectrical variable optical attenuator loss value, an optical lossadjustment amount, a wavelength channel number of a to-be-commissionedwavelength, an optical power adjustment amount of the to-be-commissionedwavelength, a wavelength channel number of an affected wavelength, andan optical power adjustment amount of the affected wavelength.

With reference to the first aspect or the second aspect, in someimplementations, before the control device sends the commissioninginformation to the N commissioning stations, the method further includesthe control device determines the commissioning information based ontarget optical power of each to-be-commissioned service and an expectedresult of commissioning.

According to a third aspect, an optical power commissioning method isprovided. The method may be performed by a commissioning station, or maybe performed by a chip or a circuit configured in the commissioningstation. This is not limited in this application.

The method may include the commissioning station reports service opticalperformance data to a control device. The commissioning station receivescommissioning information from the control device. The commissioninginformation is used by N commissioning stations to perform paralleloptical power commissioning, the N commissioning stations include thecommissioning station, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.The commissioning station performs optical power commissioning based onthe commissioning information.

With reference to the third aspect, in some implementations of the thirdaspect, that the commissioning station receives commissioninginformation from the control device includes the commissioning stationreceives commissioning information from the control device T times. T isan integer greater than or equal to 1. The method further includesfeeding back a commissioning response to the control device after eachtime of optical power commissioning performed by the commissioningstation; or feeding back a commissioning response to the control deviceafter the commissioning station performs a T1^(th) time of optical powercommissioning, where T1 is an integer greater than 1 and less than orequal to T; or feeding back a commissioning response to the controldevice after a cumulative adjustment amount of the commissioning stationreaches a first threshold.

With reference to the third aspect, in some implementations of the thirdaspect, the commissioning information includes at least one of thefollowing: an optical amplifier gain, an optical amplifier gainadjustment amount, information about the commissioning station, anelectrical variable optical attenuator loss value, an optical lossadjustment amount, a wavelength channel number of a to-be-commissionedwavelength, an optical power adjustment amount of the to-be-commissionedwavelength, a wavelength channel number of an affected wavelength, andan optical power adjustment amount of the affected wavelength.

According to a fourth aspect, a commissioning system is provided. Thecommissioning system is configured to perform the method in any possibleimplementation of the first aspect.

Specifically, the commissioning system includes a control device and Ncommissioning stations, and the control device is configured todetermine M to-be-commissioned services on which optical powercommissioning needs to be performed. M is an integer greater than orequal to 1. The control device is further configured to sendcommissioning information to the N commissioning stations based on the Mto-be-commissioned services. The commissioning information is used bythe N commissioning stations to perform parallel optical powercommissioning. The N commissioning stations are stations on which the Mto-be-commissioned services are located, and N is an integer greaterthan or equal to 1. The N commissioning stations are configured toperform optical power commissioning based on the commissioninginformation.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of thefourth aspect, the commissioning system includes W stations, W is aninteger greater than or equal to 1, and the W stations are configured toreport service optical performance data to the control device. Thecontrol device is configured to determine the M to-be-commissionedservices based on the service optical performance data reported by the Wstations.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of thefourth aspect, the control device is configured to send commissioninginformation to the N commissioning stations T times, so that the Ncommissioning stations perform parallel optical power commissioningbased on commissioning information received each time. T is an integergreater than or equal to 1. The N commissioning stations are furtherconfigured to feed back commissioning responses to the control deviceafter each time of optical power commissioning, and the control deviceis further configured to query real-time optical power information ofthe M to-be-commissioned services and an affected service based on thecommissioning responses; or the N commissioning stations are furtherconfigured to feed back commissioning responses to the control deviceafter a T1^(th) time of optical power commissioning, and the controldevice is further configured to query real-time optical powerinformation of the M to-be-commissioned services and an affected servicebased on the commissioning responses, where T1 is an integer greaterthan 1 and less than or equal to T; or any one of the N commissioningstations is further configured to feed back a commissioning response tothe control device after a cumulative adjustment amount reaches a firstthreshold, and the control device is further configured to queryreal-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissioned servicesand an affected service based on the commissioning response; or the Ncommissioning stations are further configured to feed back commissioningresponses to the control device after a total cumulative adjustmentamount reaches a second threshold, and the control device is furtherconfigured to query real-time optical power information of the Mto-be-commissioned services and an affected service based on thecommissioning responses.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of thefourth aspect, the M to-be-commissioned services correspond to X opticalmultiplex sections OMSs. X is an integer greater than or equal to 1. Thecontrol device is configured to calculate at least one of the followingof each of the X OMSs: an absolute total multiplexed-wavelengthadjustment amount, an absolute total single-wavelength adjustmentamount, and a relative adjustment amount of each commissioning station.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of thefourth aspect, the control device is configured to calculate at leastone of the following information of each of the N commissioningstations: a multiplexed-wavelength optical power adjustment amount and asingle-wavelength optical power adjustment amount.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of thefourth aspect, the multiplexed-wavelength optical power adjustmentamount and/or the single-wavelength optical power adjustment amount meetor meets at least one of the following: optical power adjustmentamounts, on a same commissioning station, of to-be-commissioned servicespassing through a same OMS section in the M to-be-commissioned servicesare offset in positive and negative directions is less than or equal toa third threshold, and a co-directional cumulative optical poweradjustment amount of N1 commissioning stations is less than or equal toa fourth threshold. The N1 commissioning stations are commissioningstations on which a same to-be-commissioned service is located, the N1commissioning stations belong to the N commissioning stations, and N1 isan integer greater than or equal to 1.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of thefourth aspect, the control device is configured to calculate an opticalpower adjustment amount of the affected service based on degradationamounts of the affected service before and after commissioning of the Ncommissioning stations. The affected service represents a serviceaffected by commissioning of the N commissioning stations.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of thefourth aspect, the commissioning information includes at least one ofthe following: an optical amplifier gain, an optical amplifier gainadjustment amount, information about the commissioning station, anelectrical variable optical attenuator loss value, an optical lossadjustment amount, a wavelength channel number of a to-be-commissionedwavelength, an optical power adjustment amount of the to-be-commissionedwavelength, a wavelength channel number of an affected wavelength, andan optical power adjustment amount of the affected wavelength.

With reference to the fourth aspect, in some implementations of thefourth aspect, the control device is configured to determine thecommissioning information based on target optical power of eachto-be-commissioned service and an expected result of commissioning.

According to a fifth aspect, a commissioning system is provided. Thecommissioning system is configured to perform the method in any possibleimplementation of the first aspect. Specifically, the commissioningsystem includes a unit configured to perform the method in any possibleimplementation of the first aspect.

According to a sixth aspect, a control device is provided. The controldevice is configured to perform the method in any possibleimplementation of the second aspect. Specifically, the control deviceincludes a unit configured to perform the method in any possibleimplementation of the second aspect.

In a possible design, the control device includes a processing unit anda transceiver unit. The processing unit is configured to determine Mto-be-commissioned services on which optical power commissioning needsto be performed. M is an integer greater than or equal to 1. Thetransceiver unit is configured to send commissioning information to Ncommissioning stations based on the M to-be-commissioned services. Thecommissioning information is used by the N commissioning stations toperform parallel optical power commissioning. The N commissioningstations are stations on which the M to-be-commissioned services arelocated, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in some implementations of the sixthaspect, the transceiver unit is further configured to receive serviceoptical performance data reported by W stations. W is an integer greaterthan or equal to 1. The processing unit is configured to determine the Mto-be-commissioned services based on the service optical performancedata reported by the W stations.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in some implementations of the sixthaspect, the transceiver unit is further configured to send commissioninginformation to the N commissioning stations T times, so that the Ncommissioning stations perform parallel optical power commissioningbased on commissioning information received each time. T is an integergreater than or equal to 1. After each time of optical powercommissioning performed by the N commissioning stations, the transceiverunit is configured to receive a commissioning response fed back by eachcommissioning station, and the processing unit is configured to queryreal-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissioned servicesand an affected service; or after the N commissioning stations perform aT1^(th) time of optical power commissioning, the transceiver unit isconfigured to receive a commissioning response fed back by eachcommissioning station, and the processing unit is configured to queryreal-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissioned servicesand an affected service, where T1 is an integer greater than 1 and lessthan or equal to T; or after a cumulative adjustment amount of any oneof the N commissioning stations reaches a first threshold, thetransceiver unit is configured to receive a commissioning response fedback by each commissioning station, and the processing unit isconfigured to query real-time optical power information of the Mto-be-commissioned services and an affected service; or after a totalcumulative adjustment amount of the N commissioning stations reaches asecond threshold, the transceiver unit is configured to receive acommissioning response fed back by each commissioning station, and theprocessing unit is configured to query real-time optical powerinformation of the M to-be-commissioned services and an affectedservice.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in some implementations of the sixthaspect, the M to-be-commissioned services correspond to X opticalmultiplex sections OMSs. X is an integer greater than or equal to 1. Theprocessing unit is configured to calculate at least one of the followingof each of the X OMSs: an absolute total multiplexed-wavelengthadjustment amount, an absolute total single-wavelength adjustmentamount, and a relative adjustment amount of each commissioning station.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in some implementations of the sixthaspect, the processing unit is configured to calculate at least one ofthe following information of each of the N commissioning stations: amultiplexed-wavelength optical power adjustment amount and asingle-wavelength optical power adjustment amount.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in some implementations of the sixthaspect, the multiplexed-wavelength optical power adjustment amountand/or the single-wavelength optical power adjustment amount meet ormeets at least one of the following: optical power adjustment amounts,on a same commissioning station, of to-be-commissioned services passingthrough a same OMS section in the M to-be-commissioned services areoffset in positive and negative directions is less than or equal to athird threshold, and a co-directional cumulative optical poweradjustment amount of N1 commissioning stations is less than or equal toa fourth threshold. The N1 commissioning stations are commissioningstations on which a same to-be-commissioned service is located, the N1commissioning stations belong to the N commissioning stations, and N1 isan integer greater than or equal to 1.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in some implementations of the sixthaspect, the processing unit is configured to calculate an optical poweradjustment amount of the affected service based on degradation amountsof the affected service before and after commissioning of the Ncommissioning stations. The affected service represents a serviceaffected by commissioning of the N commissioning stations.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in some implementations of the sixthaspect, the commissioning information includes at least one of thefollowing: an optical amplifier gain, an optical amplifier gainadjustment amount, information about the commissioning station, anelectrical variable optical attenuator loss value, an optical lossadjustment amount, a wavelength channel number of a to-be-commissionedwavelength, an optical power adjustment amount of the to-be-commissionedwavelength, a wavelength channel number of an affected wavelength, andan optical power adjustment amount of the affected wavelength.

With reference to the sixth aspect, in some implementations of the sixthaspect, the processing unit is configured to determine the commissioninginformation based on target optical power of each to-be-commissionedservice and an expected result of commissioning.

According to a seventh aspect, a commissioning station is provided. Thecommissioning station is configured to perform the method in anypossible implementation of the third aspect. Specifically, thecommissioning station includes a unit configured to perform the methodin any possible implementation of the third aspect.

In a possible design, the commissioning station includes a processingunit and a transceiver unit. The transceiver unit is configured toreport service optical performance data to a control device. Thetransceiver unit is further configured to receive commissioninginformation from the control device. The commissioning information isused by N commissioning stations to perform parallel optical powercommissioning, the N commissioning stations include the commissioningstation, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The processingunit is configured to perform optical power commissioning based on thecommissioning information.

With reference to the seventh aspect, in some implementations of theseventh aspect, the transceiver unit is configured to receivecommissioning information from the control device T times. T is aninteger greater than or equal to 1. After each time of optical powercommissioning performed by the commissioning station, the transceiverunit is further configured to feed back a commissioning response to thecontrol device; or after the commissioning station performs a T1^(th)time of optical power commissioning, the transceiver unit is furtherconfigured to feed back a commissioning response to the control device,where T1 is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to T; orafter a cumulative adjustment amount of the commissioning stationreaches a first threshold, the transceiver unit is further configured tofeed back a commissioning response to the control device.

With reference to the seventh aspect, in some implementations of theseventh aspect, the commissioning information includes at least one ofthe following: an optical amplifier gain, an optical amplifier gainadjustment amount, information about the commissioning station, anelectrical variable optical attenuator loss value, an optical lossadjustment amount, a wavelength channel number of a to-be-commissionedwavelength, an optical power adjustment amount of the to-be-commissionedwavelength, a wavelength channel number of an affected wavelength, andan optical power adjustment amount of the affected wavelength.

According to an eighth aspect, a commissioning system is provided. Thecommissioning system includes the control device in any one of theforegoing aspects and the commissioning station in any one of theforegoing aspects.

According to a ninth aspect, an optical power commissioning apparatus isprovided. The apparatus includes a processor, and the processor iscoupled to a memory, and may be configured to execute instructions inthe memory to implement the method in any possible implementation of thefirst aspect to the third aspect. In a possible implementation, theapparatus further includes the memory. In a possible implementation, theapparatus further includes a communication interface, and the processoris coupled to the communication interface.

In a possible implementation, the apparatus may be a commissioningsystem, a chip or a circuit configured in the commissioning system, or adevice including the commissioning system.

In another possible implementation, the apparatus may be a controldevice, a chip or a circuit configured in the control device, or adevice including the control device.

In another possible implementation, the apparatus may be a commissioningstation, a chip or a circuit configured in the commissioning station, ora device including the commissioning station.

In the first implementation, the apparatus is a commissioning system ora device including the commissioning system. When the apparatus is acommissioning system or a device including the commissioning system, thecommunication interface may be a transceiver or an input/outputinterface. Optionally, the transceiver may be a transceiver circuit.

In the second implementation, the apparatus is a chip configured in acommissioning system. When the apparatus is a chip configured in acommissioning system, the communication interface may be an input/outputinterface, an interface circuit, an output circuit, an input circuit, apin, a related circuit, or the like. The processor may also be embodiedas a processing circuit or a logic circuit.

In the third implementation, the apparatus is a control device or adevice including the control device. When the apparatus is a controldevice or a device including the control device, the communicationinterface may be a transceiver or an input/output interface. Optionally,the transceiver may be a transceiver circuit.

In the fourth implementation, the apparatus is a chip configured in acontrol device. When the apparatus is a chip configured in a controldevice, the communication interface may be an input/output interface, aninterface circuit, an output circuit, an input circuit, a pin, a relatedcircuit, or the like. The processor may also be embodied as a processingcircuit or a logic circuit.

In the fifth implementation, the apparatus is a commissioning station ora device including the commissioning station. When the apparatus is acommissioning station or a device including the commissioning station,the communication interface may be a transceiver or an input/outputinterface. Optionally, the transceiver may be a transceiver circuit.

In the sixth implementation, the apparatus is a chip configured in acommissioning station. When the apparatus is a chip configured in acommissioning station, the communication interface may be aninput/output interface, an interface circuit, an output circuit, aninput circuit, a pin, a related circuit, or the like. The processor mayalso be embodied as a processing circuit or a logic circuit.

According to a tenth aspect, a computer-readable storage medium isprovided. The computer-readable storage medium stores a computerprogram, and when the computer program is executed by an apparatus, theapparatus implements the method in any possible implementation of eachof the foregoing aspects.

According to an eleventh aspect, a computer program product includinginstructions is provided. When the instructions are executed by anapparatus, the apparatus implements the method in any possibleimplementation of each of the foregoing aspects.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 are schematic diagrams of a communication systemapplicable to embodiments of this application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of distributed serial power commissioning;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an optical power commissioning methodaccording to an embodiment of this application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an optimization algorithm modelingprocess of a control device applicable to embodiments of thisapplication;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an optical power commissioning methodapplicable to embodiments of this application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a relative adjustment amount of an OMSsection applicable to embodiments of this application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of an optical power commissioningapparatus according to an embodiment of this application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of another optical power commissioningapparatus according to an embodiment of this application;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a control device according to anembodiment of this application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of a commissioning station according toan embodiment of this application; and

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of an optical power commissioning deviceaccording to an embodiment of this application.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIVE EMBODIMENTS

The following describes technical solutions of this application withreference to the accompanying drawings.

The technical solutions in embodiments of this application may beapplied to various optical communication systems or optical networks, ormay be applied to any communication system that requires optimizationcommissioning.

For ease of understanding of embodiments of this application, acommunication system applicable to embodiments of this application isfirst described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 .

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system architecture applicable to amethod provided in embodiments of this application. It should beunderstood that the system architecture shown in FIG. 1 is merely anexample for ease of understanding, and should not constitute alimitation on the application scope of this application.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the system includes a communication network 110 anda network management system 120. The communication network 110 mayinclude at least one network device 111 to 118, and an optical layerservice can run on each network device. The network device may beunderstood as an object that needs to be managed in the communicationnetwork. The network device may be implemented by using software, forexample, may be a virtual machine, a container, or an application; ormay be implemented by using hardware such as a server, a base station, aswitch, a router, a relay, a mobile terminal, a personal computer, adisk, or a solid-state drive; or may be implemented by using acombination of software and hardware. A specific form of the networkdevice is not limited in this application. For example, the networkdevice may be a distributed network element, and the network managementsystem 120 may be a centralized control unit.

The network management system 120 may include an information collectiondevice 121 and an information processing device 122. The informationcollection device 121 may be configured to collect and manageinformation, for example, optical performance data, about each networkdevice in the communication network 110. For example, the informationcollection device 121 may be communicatively connected to thecommunication network 110, and any network device in the communicationnetwork may send optical performance data to the information collectiondevice 121. The information collection device 121 may provide thereceived information for the subsequent information processing device122, so that the information processing device 122 performs processingbased on the information, for example, analyzes, based on theinformation, whether optical power commissioning needs to be performed.

It should be understood that, in the foregoing descriptions, the networkmanagement system 120 is divided based on different functions for easeof understanding only. However, this should not constitute anylimitation on this application.

In a design, for example, the network management system 120 may bedeployed on one physical device. The physical device may include one ormore processors and one or more memories. The memory may storeinstructions. When the instructions are loaded and executed by theprocessor, the functions performed by the network management system 120may be implemented. For example, the functions of the foregoing devicesand modules may be separately implemented by the processor by executingcorresponding instructions. Certainly, the physical device may furtherinclude an input/output interface such as a wired or wireless networkinterface, to communicate with the outside. The physical device mayfurther include a component that may be configured to implement anotherfunction. For brevity, details are not described herein.

In another design, for example, the network management system 120 may bedeployed on a plurality of physical devices in a distributed manner. Theplurality of physical devices may constitute one device cluster. Thedevice cluster may include one or more processors and one or morememories. The memory may store instructions. When the instructions areloaded and executed by the processor, the functions performed by thenetwork management system 120 may be implemented.

In addition, each physical device may further include an input/outputinterface, so that communication between the physical devices andcommunication with the outside are performed. The device cluster mayfurther include a component that may be configured to implement anotherfunction. For brevity, details are not described herein.

FIG. 2 is another schematic diagram of a system architecture applicableto a method provided in embodiments of this application. It should beunderstood that the system architecture shown in FIG. 2 is merely anexample for ease of understanding, and should not constitute alimitation on the application scope of this application.

As shown in FIG. 2 , the system includes one or more nodes (or stationsor network elements), for example, a node 211, a node 212, and a node213 in FIG. 2 . The nodes may communicate with each other. The systemmay further include one or more network management devices such as anetwork management device 220 in FIG. 2 . For example, the networkmanagement device may be a centralized control unit or an auto controlcenter (ACC).

The network management device may include a first apparatus and a secondapparatus, and the node may include a second apparatus and a thirdapparatus.

For example, the first apparatus may be denoted as a network opticaldata (OD) (NETWORK_OD) apparatus. For example, the second apparatus maybe denoted as a path computation element communication protocol (PCEP)control apparatus. For example, the third apparatus may be denoted as anetwork element (NE) OD (NE_OD) apparatus.

For example, the first apparatus may be a brain, and control an entireparallel commissioning process. For example, the first apparatus mayinclude four modules: an optical sensor module, a commissioning datamanagement module, an optimization algorithm module, and an optimizationcontrol module.

The optical sensor module may collect and monitor an optical performanceparameter of an OMS (or an optical path (OCH)), and upload the opticalperformance parameter to the commissioning data management module. Forexample, the optical performance parameter may include but is notlimited to optical power, a bit error rate, and a bit error ratio (BER).

The commissioning data management module may implement dataconcatenation (for example, depending on a network topologyrelationship), data lifecycle management (on real-time data orhistorical data), data cleaning or preprocessing, or the like.

The optimization algorithm module may model the optical-performancephysical parameter to calculate some commissioning information such astarget optical power of a to-be-commissioned service, an optimaladjustment step of the to-be-commissioned service, and an adjustmentamount of each old wavelength in affected services, and provide thecommissioning information for the optimization control module forparallel commissioning.

The optimization control module may automatically identify batchperformance-degraded services, control a plurality of rounds ofcommissioning in multi-service and multi-fault parallel commissioningfor network elements, and the like

For example, the second apparatus may be configured to control reportingof a real-time optical performance resource of a network and delivery ofan adjustment amount. The second apparatus can ensure that the real-timeoptical performance resource is automatically sent to the NETWORK_ODapparatus.

For example, the third apparatus may be used for network elementcommissioning performance data management and network elementcommissioning control. Network element commissioning performance datamanagement is millisecond optical performance data collection of adevice board and management of optical performance data of an opticalcomponent in a network element service. Network element commissioningcontrol is executing and responding to a network element commissioningaction. The third apparatus can collect millisecond optical performancedata in real time, and provide network real-time data for an automatedsystem.

In this embodiment of this application, the control device maycorrespond to the network management device 220. The network managementdevice 220 may be deployed on a standalone server, or may be deployed ona network element device (namely, a node). This is not limited. Forexample, the first apparatus may be deployed on a standalone server oron a network element device with a relatively strong capability.

In this embodiment of this application, a commissioning station maycorrespond to each node (or each network element) (for example, the node211 to the node 213).

It should be understood that, in the foregoing descriptions, the networkelement, the network management device 220, and the first apparatus aredivided based on different functions for ease of understanding only.However, this should not constitute any limitation on this application.It may be understood that although division manners are different,functions implemented by each device are still the same.

The network management device is used as an example. In a design, forexample, the network management device 220 may be deployed on onephysical device. The physical device may include one or more processorsand one or more memories. The memory may store instructions. When theinstructions are loaded and executed by the processor, the functionsperformed by the network management device 220 may be implemented. Forexample, the functions of the foregoing devices and modules may beseparately implemented by the processor by executing correspondinginstructions. Certainly, the physical device may further include aninput/output interface such as a wired or wireless network interface, tocommunicate with the outside. The physical device may further include acomponent that may be configured to implement another function. Forbrevity, details are not described herein.

In another design, for example, the network management device 220 may bedeployed on a plurality of physical devices in a distributed manner. Theplurality of physical devices may constitute one device cluster. Thedevice cluster may include one or more processors and one or morememories. The memory may store instructions. When the instructions areloaded and executed by the processor, the functions performed by thenetwork management device 220 may be implemented.

For example, the first apparatus and the second apparatus listed abovemay be independently deployed on two physical devices. A function ofeach device may be implemented by a processor in each physical deviceexecuting a corresponding instruction. A function of each module in thefirst apparatus may be further implemented by the processor by executinga corresponding instruction. Alternatively, functions of modules in thefirst apparatus may be implemented by using a plurality of standalonephysical devices, and each module is deployed on one physical device.This is not limited in this application. In addition, division of themodules in the first apparatus is not limited in this application.

In addition, each physical device may further include an input/outputinterface, so that communication between the physical devices andcommunication with the outside are performed. The device cluster mayfurther include a component that may be configured to implement anotherfunction. For brevity, details are not described herein.

It should be understood that the foregoing names are only used todistinguish between different functions, but do not indicate that thefirst apparatus and the second apparatus are standalone physicaldevices, or the second apparatus and the third apparatus are standalonephysical devices. Specific forms of the first apparatus, the secondapparatus, and the third apparatus are not limited in this application.For example, the first apparatus, the second apparatus, and the thirdapparatus may be integrated into a same physical device, or may bedifferent physical devices. In addition, the foregoing names are onlyused to distinguish between different functions, and should notconstitute any limitation on this application. This application does notrule out a possibly of using other names in a 5G network and anotherfuture network.

It should be further understood that the system architectures shown inFIG. 1 and FIG. 2 are merely examples for ease of understanding, andshould not constitute a limitation on the application scope of thisapplication. For example, this application may be applied to anyscenario in which optical communication is performed.

To facilitate understanding of embodiments of this application, thefollowing first briefly describes some terms involved in thisapplication.

1. Optimization commissioning: In some scenarios such as natural agingof an optical fiber and an abnormal or artificial board fault, opticalpower of a multiplexed wavelength may deviate from a reference value bya large range after long-term operation, resulting in general deviationof optical power of single wavelengths and optical power performancedegradation. The optical power is adjusted to a nominal value byadjusting an optical amplifier gain and a variable optical attenuatorloss value in a network, to ensure normal and stable running of asystem.

2. Old wavelength: An old wavelength is an existing wavelength channelon a rerouting or an expansion optical path compared with a newwavelength. Adding the new wavelength affects performance of the oldwavelength.

3. Old wavelength margin: An old wavelength margin is an indicator thatcan be used to evaluate a capability of rejecting disturbance of power,nonlinearity, and the like by the old wavelength. A larger marginindicates a stronger disturbance rejection capability.

4. Optical cross-connect: An optical cross-connect (OXC) is an opticalfiber interface with a plurality of standards, and is used to performcontrollable connection and reconnection between any optical fibersignal (or each wavelength signal of any optical fiber signal) andanother optical fiber signal at an optical network node.

5. Optical transponder unit (OTU): An optical transponder unit is acomponent or a subsystem that can convert an accessed client signal intoa wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) standard wavelength compliantwith a standard (for example, ITU-T G.694.1/ITU-T G.694.2).

6. Wavelength selective switch (WSS): A wavelength selective switch is anew technology that can implement dynamic reconfigurable opticaladd-drop multiplexing or a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer(ROADM), has a mesh architecture, can support any uplink or downlinkfunction of any port wavelength, and has a function of adjusting opticalpower of any wavelength.

7. Optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR): An optical signal-to-noiseratio is an indicator that can evaluate quality of an optical signal. Alarger OSNR indicates better quality of an optical signal, and a smallerOSNR indicates worse quality of an optical signal.

8. A label switching path (LSP): A label switching path is a path thatis divided based on special forward error correction (FEC), that isformed by one ingress node (for example, denoted as Ingress), one egressnode (for example, denoted as Egress), and one or more label switchingrouters (LSR), and that can be established at a label stack level fordata packet transmission. The LSR is a processing device with amulti-protocol label switching (MPLS) node function, and has acapability of forwarding a layer 3 (L3) internet protocol (IP) packet.The MPLS edge node Ingress (MPLS ingress node) is configured to processIP packet traffic input to an MPLS domain. The MPLS edge node Egress(MPLS egress node) is configured to process IP packet traffic output bythe MPLS domain.

In an optical communication network, when service performance isdegraded, power commissioning needs to be performed on a wavelengthservice. For example, if the service performance is degraded due tooptical fiber cutover, optical fiber degradation, intra-stationinsertion loss degradation, and an improper manual operation, powercommissioning needs to be performed on the wavelength service.

An optical layer service starts from the OTU, and passes throughnumerous optical components such as an optical amplifier, an opticalfiber, a WSS, an interleaver unit (ITL), a fiber interface unit (FIU),and an electrical variable optical attenuator (EVOA). Light ispropagated in these optical components in a form of an analog signal. Ahole-burning effect of the optical amplifier, a Raman effect of anoptical fiber, and a filtering effect of the WSS/ITL cause interactionbetween optical signals of different channels, to finally result in achange of optical power and an OSNR.

Optimization commissioning has the following characteristics: Opticalpower of an optical layer network nonlinearly changes, inter-dimensionalimpact is caused by multidimensional networking (wireless meshnetworking), optimization of a single dimension may cause a fault toanother dimension, and if commissioning is performed on an optical path,an old wavelength transmitted in a same optical fiber is affected by ato-be-commissioned wavelength. The old wavelength is differentlyaffected if locations, quantities, and commissioning power ofto-be-commissioned wavelengths are different. The old wavelength is alsodifferently affected if commissioning power of to-be-commissionedwavelengths at same locations and of a same quantity is different. Inaddition, a longer optical path shared by the to-be-commissionedwavelength and the old wavelength indicates greater impact on the oldwavelength. Therefore, there is a complex impact relationship between alocation of the to-be-commissioned wavelength, a quantity ofto-be-commissioned wavelengths, commissioning power of theto-be-commissioned wavelength, a location of the affected oldwavelength, a quantity of old wavelengths, and path configurationparameters (a quantity of spans, a span length, a component type, andthe like). Wavelength channel commissioning may cause serviceinterruption in an existing network. It is difficult to determine acommissioning sequence of mesh networking, a commissioning risk is high,and high skills are required.

At present, to ensure network performance excellence, two main mannersare used for commissioning: manual commissioning and tool-basedcommissioning.

Manual commissioning: In an optimization commissioning process, it isnecessary to control a commissioning location and step and commission anaffected service. Quite high skills of operation and maintenancepersonnel are required, and this manner is time- and labor-consuming.

Tool-based commissioning: Serial small-step commissioning is performedbased on each optical multiplex section (OMS) layer, and when a part ofpower of a to-be-commissioned wavelength is commissioned, power of anaffected old wavelength is locked to monitor whether a service isinterrupted. In OMS serial commissioning, repeat trial and errorcommissioning is quite time-consuming, average commissioning performanceis 30 minutes/wavelength, and commissioning security is poor. There isno effective means to ensure security of a current service and otherrelated services. Especially in a multi-service and multi-fault scenarioof a mesh network, the solution is limited and cannot be used.

An existing commissioning manner is serial step-by-step commissioningbased on an OMS section of a service, that is, manually selecting ato-be-commissioned service and performing distributed serial powercommissioning, as shown in FIG. 3 . From a service source to a sink,serial small-step commissioning is performed based on the OMS section,to traverse to-be-commissioned services and affected services. To ensuresecurity of an old-wavelength service, trial and error commissioning ofa small step 0.5 dB is performed based on a current network power value.For a single OMS section, a multiplexed wavelength of a primary opticalpath in to-be-commissioned wavelengths is first commissioned, and then asingle wavelength is commissioned. After an adjustment of a total of 2dB takes effect for the single OMS, power of an affected old wavelengthis locked to reduce impact on the old wavelength. Specifically, it isensured that power of the old wavelength remains unchanged, that is, thepower of the old wavelength is adjusted at a node by a correspondingamount by which the power of the old wavelength changes after the nodecommissions the to-be-commissioned wavelength, so that the power of theold wavelength remains unchanged at the node. Trial and errorcommissioning of the small step 0.5 dB is performed, so that the opticalpower of the old-wavelength service is locked. If the optical powerfails to be locked, single-step rollback is performed. That is, impacton a service after commissioning cannot be predicted, and therefore,commissioning can be performed at the step 0.5 dB only step by step andcompleted for an upstream OMS section. After a service is interrupted,rollback is immediately performed. Commissioning is attempted for thenext OMS section. In other words, commissioning is continued or rollbackis performed based on an observation result. In the commissioningprocess, it is further monitored whether a BER of the service exceeds athreshold.

In the existing commissioning manner, the to-be-commissioned serviceneeds to be manually selected, and serial feedback commissioning, trialand error commissioning, small-step commissioning, and repeatedmonitoring of a receive end are performed based on a service path andthe OMS. Therefore, device interaction is frequently performed, andcommissioning efficiency is low. In addition, in the existingcommissioning manner, impact on the old wavelength after commissioningcannot be evaluated. In particular, when a primary optical path iscommissioned, and a fault occurs on a single wavelength, impact on astatus of the single-wavelength service that is caused by commissioningthe primary optical path is not considered. Therefore, serviceinterruption is caused, and commissioning security cannot be ensured.

In view of this, this application provides a method, to support amulti-service and multi-fault scenario and control a plurality ofservices, a plurality of faults, and a plurality of commissioningstations together, thereby improving commissioning efficiency andcommissioning security.

With reference to the accompanying drawings, the following describes indetail embodiments provided in this application.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of interaction of an optical powercommissioning method 400 according to an embodiment of this application.The method 400 may include the following steps.

410: A control device determines M to-be-commissioned services on whichoptical power commissioning needs to be performed, where M is an integergreater than or equal to 1.

The control device may identify a wavelength service on which opticalpower commissioning needs to be performed, or the control device mayidentify a wavelength service on which optimization commissioning needsto be performed, or the control device may identify a wavelength serviceon which optical layer commissioning needs to be performed. It may beunderstood that the control device may determine that optical powercorresponding to some services (for example, denoted asto-be-commissioned services, where M may be, for example, an integergreater than 1) needs to be adjusted, or the control device maydetermine that optical power of an optical path on which some servicesare located needs to be adjusted.

For example, the control device may be a centralized network element, acentralized control unit, or an ACC.

For example, the control device may be the network management system inFIG. 1 or the network management device in FIG. 2 . For another example,the control device may be a device on which the foregoing firstapparatus (for example, the NETWORK_OD apparatus) is deployed or adevice on which the foregoing first apparatus and second apparatus aredeployed. It should be understood that the control device may include aplurality of modules such as an optical sensor module, a commissioningdata management module, an optimization algorithm module, and anoptimization control module. This is not limited in this embodiment ofthis application.

It should be understood that the control device is merely a name fordistinguishing between different functions, and does not limit theprotection scope of embodiments of this application.

A service involved in this embodiment of this application may representa wavelength service, an optical layer service, or a service that may becarried by an optical transport network. For example, the service may bean Ethernet service, a packet service, or a wireless backhaul service.In this embodiment of this application, a service, a wavelength service,and a wavelength are sometimes interchangeably used, and are all used torepresent a wavelength service. For example, both a to-be-commissionedservice and a to-be-commissioned wavelength are used to represent awavelength service on which optical power commissioning or optimizationcommissioning needs to be performed. For another example, an affectedservice or an affected wavelength is used to represent a wavelengthservice affected by a to-be-commissioned wavelength (namely, awavelength on which optical power commissioning needs to be performed).One service may correspond to one OMS section, or one or morewavelengths may be used in a same OMS section.

Optionally, the control device may determine, based on service opticalperformance data, a plurality of to-be-commissioned services on whichoptical power commissioning needs to be performed.

The control device may monitor network-wide service optical performancedata in real time, analyze the monitored service optical performancedata, and determine the services on which optimization commissioningneeds to be performed.

Optionally, before step 410, the method 400 may further include step401.

401: W stations report the service optical performance data to thecontrol device, where W is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

Correspondingly, the control device may determine the Mto-be-commissioned services based on the service optical performancedata reported by the W stations.

A network element device may actively report service optical performancedata to the control device. For example, when the service opticalperformance data changes, the network element device may actively reportthe service optical performance data to the control device, so that thecontrol device can determine, based on the reported service opticalperformance data, whether optical power commissioning needs to beperformed.

Network element devices (for example, the W stations) collectmillisecond service optical performance data in real time per station,and report single-station board optical performance data to the controldevice. For example, the network element device may report thesingle-station board optical performance data to the control device byusing an extended path computation element communication protocol(PCEP). It may be understood that the control device may interact witheach network element device by using a field (for example, an extendedfield) in a PCEP message. It should be understood that transmittingservice optical performance data by using the PCEP message is merely anexample for description, and this is not limited. Any manner in whichthe control device can obtain service optical performance data isapplicable to this embodiment of this application. It should be furtherunderstood that the W stations represent stations reporting the serviceoptical performance data, the N commissioning stations representstations on which the to-be-commissioned services are located or throughwhich the to-be-commissioned services pass, and the W stations mayinclude the N commissioning stations, or the W stations may include someof the commissioning stations. This is not limited herein.

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It should be understood that the foregoing form of the extended pathcomputation element communication protocol is merely an exampledescription provided for ease of understanding, and a specific form ofthe protocol is not limited. In a future protocol, definitions orexpressions used to indicate a same meaning or a same function areapplicable to this embodiment of this application.

For example, the optical performance data may include but is not limitedto input/output multiplexed-wavelength optical power of an opticalamplifier board, single-wavelength optical power, an optical amplifiergain, an EVOA loss value, and a service BER.

In a possible implementation, the control device identifies, based on atleast one of the following, a to-be-commissioned service on whichoptical power commissioning needs to be performed: whethermultiplexed-wavelength output power of each OMS section of a servicedeviates from a target value, whether an OSNR loss of each service inthe OMS is flat, a BER identified for a single-wavelength service,whether optical power of an OTU receive end is abnormal, and whetheroptical power of a transmit end is abnormal.

For example, when multiplexed-wavelength output power of each OMSsection of a service deviates from the target value, it may bedetermined that optical power commissioning needs to be performed on theservice. Optical power commissioning or optimization commissioning isperformed on the service, to improve performance of the service andensure normal and stable running of a system.

For another example, when a BER of a single-wavelength service isrelatively large, for example, is greater than a preset threshold, itmay be determined that optical power commissioning needs to be performedon the service. Optical power commissioning or optimizationcommissioning is performed on the service, to improve performance of theservice and ensure normal and stable running of a system. The presetthreshold may be used to determine whether optical power correspondingto the service needs to be commissioned. A value of the preset thresholdis not limited in this embodiment of this application. For example, thepreset threshold may be an empirical value, for example, may bedetermined based on a statistical value of historical data. For anotherexample, the preset threshold may be pre-specified, for example,predefined in a protocol.

It should be understood that any manner in which the control device canidentify a service on which optical power commissioning needs to beperformed falls within the protection scope of embodiments of thisapplication. For example, the control device may also monitornetwork-wide system performance in real time. When the systemperformance is relatively poor, the control device may select one ormore stations for commissioning trial, and observe whether thenetwork-wide system performance is improved.

420: The control device sends commissioning information to the Ncommissioning stations based on the M to-be-commissioned services. Thecommissioning information is used by the N commissioning stations toperform parallel optical power commissioning. The N commissioningstations are stations on which the M to-be-commissioned services arelocated, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

Correspondingly, after receiving the commissioning information, eachcommissioning station may perform optical power commissioning based onthe commissioning information. For example, when multiplexed-wavelengthoutput power of an optical amplifier deviates from a target value, anoptical amplifier gain or an EVOA loss value may be adjusted based onthe commissioning information. For another example, whensingle-wavelength output optical power of the optical amplifier deviatesfrom a target value, a WSS loss value may be adjusted based on thecommissioning information.

There is no strict correspondence between the W stations and the Ncommissioning stations. The commissioning station represents a stationon which the to-be-commissioned service is located or through which theto-be-commissioned service passes, and the W stations represent stationsactively reporting the service optical performance data. In a possiblecase, the W stations may include the N commissioning stations.

In this embodiment of this application, parallel commissioning may beimplemented. The control device may first identify a service on whichoptimization commissioning needs to be performed, and then sendcommissioning information to each commissioning station based on theservice on which optimization commissioning needs to be performed, sothat the commissioning stations can perform parallel commissioning basedon the commissioning information. The control device may control aplurality of services, a plurality of faults (in other words,optimization commissioning needs to be performed on the plurality ofservices), and a plurality commissioning stations together, so thatautomatic parallel multi-service, multi-OMS section, andmulti-commissioning station optimization commissioning can beimplemented, and a multi-service and multi-fault scenario can besupported. This is applicable to more commissioning scenarios. Inaddition, optimization commissioning can be quickly performed, and asmany commissioning stations as possible can perform parallelcommissioning, so that optimization commissioning efficiency isimproved, and a requirement of a customer for quick and automaticoptimization commissioning is met to the greatest extent.

In this embodiment of this application, in parallel commissioning, theplurality of commissioning stations may not necessarily performcommissioning at the same time. Parallel commissioning may be understoodas follows. The control device may send commissioning information to theplurality of commissioning stations in one message at the same time, andthe plurality of commissioning stations may separately performcommissioning based on the received commissioning information.Alternatively, parallel commissioning may be understood as follows.Parallel commissioning may be performed for a plurality of OMS sectionsor by a plurality of commissioning stations.

Optionally, the control device may send commissioning information to theN commissioning stations T times. T is an integer greater than or equalto 1. In other words, the control device may send commissioninginformation to the N commissioning stations one or more times.

For example, the control device sends commissioning information to the Ncommissioning stations. After the N commissioning stations performcommissioning based on the commissioning information, if each OMSsection reaches target power, the control device may no longer sendcommissioning information to the N commissioning stations.

For another example, the control device sends commissioning informationto the N commissioning stations. After the N commissioning stationsperform commissioning based on the commissioning information, if OMSsections do not reach target power, the control device may continue tosend commissioning information to the N commissioning stations.Commissioning information sent each time may be the same or may bedifferent. This is not limited. For example, after each time thecommissioning station completes commissioning, the control device mayrecalculate commissioning information. For another example, each timethe commissioning station completes commissioning, the control devicedoes not calculate commissioning information, and may perform sendingbased on commissioning information calculated for the first time orbased on a small step. For still another example, the commissioningstation may perform commissioning a plurality of times based oncommissioning information.

For still another example, the control device sends commissioninginformation to the N commissioning stations a plurality of times, andeach time of commissioning may be performed at a small step, so thatimpact on an affected wavelength is reduced, and commissioning securityis improved.

It may be understood that, in this embodiment of this application, the Ncommissioning stations may commission optical power once, or the Ncommissioning stations may perform optical power commissioning once; orthe N commissioning stations may commission optical power a plurality oftimes, or the N commissioning stations may perform optical powercommissioning a plurality of times.

Optionally, the control device may implement optimization algorithmmodeling. Specifically, the control device may model anoptical-performance physical parameter to calculate some commissioninginformation such as target optical power of the to-be-commissionedservice, an optimal adjustment step of the to-be-commissioned service,and an adjustment amount of each old wavelength in affected services,and provide the commissioning information for the optimization controlmodule for parallel commissioning.

For ease of understanding, an example of an optimization algorithmmodeling process of a control device is described with reference to FIG.5 .

FIG. 5 shows a single OMS section model. Two reconfigurable opticaladd-drop multiplexer (ROADM)/fixed optical add-drop multiplexer (FOADM)nodes can constitute one OMS section. In the OMS section, for example,an optical layer device, that is, a device that can process an opticallayer signal, may include but is not limited to an optical amplifier(OA) and an optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) (for example, anROADM/FOADM). The OA may also be referred to as an optical lineamplifier (OLA), and is mainly configured to amplify an optical signal,to support transmission over a longer distance without compromisingspecific performance of the optical signal. The OADM is configured toperform space transformation on an optical signal, so that the opticalsignal can be output from different output ports (which are sometimesreferred to as directions).

Components that affect each other between wavelengths in the OMS sectionmainly include the optical amplifier (hole-burning effect) and anoptical fiber (Raman effect). Optical performance monitors (OPM) aredistributed at a head node and an end node of the OMS section, and maymonitor single-wavelength optical power at the head node and the endnode. That is, the optical performance monitors may monitorsingle-wavelength optical power of an OMS_head node and an OMS_end nodeshown in FIG. 5 , namely, single-wavelength optical power of a station A(or a network element A) and a station B (or a network element B). Whenmultiplexed-wavelength output power of the optical amplifier deviatesfrom a target value, an optical amplifier gain or an EVOA loss value maybe adjusted; and when single-wavelength optical power of the opticalamplifier deviates from a target value, a WSS loss value may beadjusted. When optical power of each OMS section reaches target opticalpower, it indicates that service performance is excellent, andcommissioning is completed.

Before sending commissioning information, a control device may calculatesome commissioning information, so that a commissioning station canperform proper commissioning. The following describes solutions aboutthe commissioning information in detail from the following aspects. Itshould be understood that content in the following aspects may be usedalone, or may be used in combination. This is not limited.

Aspect 1: The control device may calculate target optical power of ato-be-commissioned service.

The target optical power is nominal optical power or expected opticalpower, or is optical power expected after the to-be-commissioned serviceis commissioned. The control device calculates the target optical powerof the to-be-commissioned service. When each OMS section reaches targetpower, or optical power of each OMS section is adjusted to targetoptical power, it indicates that the commissioning is completed.

Optionally, the control device may separately calculate targetprimary-optical-path or multiplexed-wavelength optical power and targetsingle-wavelength optical power.

For example, the target primary-optical-path optical power may becalculated for a primary optical path on the OMS section based on a rulethat an optical amplifier gain is used to compensate for a line loss. Itmay be understood that the target primary-optical-path optical power iscalculated for a primary optical path on each OMS section based on therule that an optical amplifier gain is used to compensate for a lineloss.

For another example, the target single-wavelength optical power is anOMS transmit-end single-wavelength optical power in a case of OSNR lossequalization that is calculated based on a currently monitored value. Itmay be understood that for a single service, the OMS transmit-endsingle-wavelength optical power in the case of OSNR loss equalization iscalculated based on the currently monitored value and used as the targetoptical power.

Aspect 2: The control device may calculate a total adjustment amount.

Considering multi-service parallel commissioning, the control device maycalculate the total adjustment amount of the OMS section, and then maydetermine an adjustment amount of each commissioning station.

For example, an absolute total adjustment amount of the OMS section iscalculated.

For example, an absolute total primary-optical-path adjustment amount ofthe OMS section may be a difference between an optical amplifier gainand a multiplexed-wavelength loss. That is, the difference between theoptical amplifier gain and the optical-path loss value of a primaryoptical path on the OMS section is calculated, and the difference is theabsolute total optical-path adjustment amount.

For another example, an absolute total single-wavelength adjustmentamount of the OMS section may be a value obtained by subtracting actualsingle-wavelength optical power from target single-wavelength opticalpower. That is, the value obtained by subtracting the actualsingle-wavelength optical power from the target single-wavelengthoptical power on the OMS section is calculated, and the value is theabsolute total single-wavelength adjustment amount.

Optionally, the control device may determine the adjustment amount ofeach commissioning station based on the absolute total adjustment amountof the OMS section. For ease of understanding, an example is described.

It is assumed that to-be-commissioned services pass through an OMSsection, commissioning stations on which the to-be-commissioned serviceson the OMS section are located include a commissioning station A and acommissioning station B, and an absolute total adjustment amount of theOMS section is P. For example, an adjustment amount of each of thecommissioning station A and the commissioning station B may be P/2. Foranother example, a proportion of adjustment amounts of the commissioningstation A and the commissioning station B is a preset proportion. Forexample, an adjustment amount of the commissioning station A is a*P, andan adjustment amount of the commissioning station B is (1-a)*P; or anadjustment amount of the commissioning station A is (1-b)*P, and anadjustment amount of the commissioning station B is b*P, where a and bare numbers greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1. Itshould be understood that values of the adjustment amounts of thecommissioning station A and the commissioning station B are not limited.

For another example, a relative total adjustment amount of the OMSsection is calculated.

For example, a relative adjustment amount of a commissioning station maybe an absolute total adjustment amount of the commissioning stationminus a cumulative adjustment amount of all upstream commissioningstations of the commissioning station.

Upstream or downstream: A source device A transmits data to adestination device B, the data passes through a device M, and the deviceM is located between the device A and the device B in a datatransmission direction. In this case, the device A is in an upstreamdirection of the device M, and the device B is in a downstream directionof the device M.

In this example, the control device may determine the adjustment amountof each commissioning station based on the relative total adjustmentamount of the OMS section. For ease of understanding, an example isdescribed.

It is assumed that to-be-commissioned services pass through an OMSsection, commissioning stations on which the to-be-commissioned serviceson the OMS section are located include a commissioning station A and acommissioning station B, and a relative total adjustment amount of theOMS section is P', for example, a proportion of an adjustment amount ofthe commissioning station A to an adjustment amount of the commissioningstation B is P'. In this case, the adjustment amount of thecommissioning station A may be x*P', and the adjustment amount of thecommissioning station B is P'; or one of the commissioning stationsperforms commissioning at a small step such as 0.5 dB, and an adjustmentamount of the other commissioning station may be determined based on P'and 0.5. It should be understood that values of the adjustment amountsof the commissioning station A and the commissioning station B are notlimited.

Considering that service-upstream optical power changes after beingcommissioned and service-downstream optical power also changesaccordingly, through a hedge of upstream and downstream adjustmentamounts, an adjustment amount of a downstream station maybe anadjustment amount of optical power of each wavelength of the downstreamstation minus a cumulative adjustment amount of all preceding OMSs, andno separate cutoff operation needs to be performed.

Based on the foregoing solution, steps of a primary optical path and asingle wavelength are independently calculated and decoupled from eachother, so that repeated calculation of a multiplexed-wavelength poweradjustment amount can be avoided, a quantity of commissioning times canbe reduced, and commissioning efficiency can be further improved.

Optionally, in this embodiment of this application, the adjustmentamount of each commissioning station may be determined based on theabsolute total adjustment amount of the OMS section or the relativeadjustment amount of the OMS section, or the adjustment amount of eachcommissioning station may be jointly determined based on the absolutetotal adjustment amount of the OMS section and the relative adjustmentamount of the OMS section. This is not strictly limited.

Aspect 3: The control device may calculate an adjustment step of ato-be-commissioned service.

For example, the control device may calculate an optimal adjustment stepof the to-be-commissioned service.

It may be understood that if parallel delivery is performed for OMSsections based on a minimum step, impact on another affected wavelengthis relatively small, and security is high, but commissioning efficiencyis improved to a relatively small extent. If parallel delivery isperformed for OMS sections based on a maximum step, becausecommissioning values of commissioning stations do not take effect at thesame time, service interruption may be caused if commissioning valuesonly in a same direction take effect. Therefore, a limitation of aco-directional commissioning step of parallel commissioning may beconsidered. In this embodiment of this application, with considerationof impact of commissioning on security of another wavelength and arequirement for commissioning performance, parallel delivery isperformed based on OMS sections by considering a single-station (OMS)step constraint and an inter-station (OCH level) co-directionalcommissioning step constraint, so that impact on another wavelength iscontrollable, and parallel commissioning performance is high.

In a possible implementation, with consideration of impact ofcommissioning on security of another wavelength and a requirement forcommissioning performance, commissioning steps of commissioning stationsmay be delivered in parallel based on OMS sections by considering asingle-station step constraint and an inter-station co-directionalcommissioning step constraint.

Example 1: Single-station (OMS) step constraint (namely, an OMS sectiondimension): Commissioning steps of a plurality of to-be-commissionedservices passing through the OMS section on a same commissioning stationare offset in positive and negative directions does not exceed a thirdthreshold.

The third threshold may be used to determine whether a commissioningstep on the commissioning station is proper.

For example, the third threshold may be used for comparison with amultiplexed-wavelength commissioning step on the commissioning stationand a single-wavelength commissioning step on the commissioning station.If a step value obtained by offsetting multiplexed-wavelengthcommissioning steps of a plurality of to-be-commissioned services on acommissioning station in positive and negative directions is excessivelylarge and exceeds the third threshold, it indicates that themultiplexed-wavelength commissioning steps of the plurality ofto-be-commissioned services on the commissioning station are improper orare not optimal. If a step value obtained by offsettingsingle-wavelength commissioning steps of a plurality ofto-be-commissioned services on a commissioning station in positive andnegative directions is excessively large and exceeds the thirdthreshold, it indicates that the single-wavelength commissioning stepsof the plurality of to-be-commissioned services on the commissioningstation are improper or are not optimal.

In this embodiment of this application, one third threshold is used asan example for description, and this is not limited. For example, twothird thresholds may be alternatively included, where one thirdthreshold is used for comparison with a multiplexed-wavelengthcommissioning step on a commissioning station, and the other thirdthreshold is used for comparison with a single-wavelength commissioningstep on the commissioning station.

No limitation is imposed on an “equal” case in this embodiment of thisapplication. For example, the third threshold may be used for comparisonwith a multiplexed-wavelength commissioning step on a commissioningstation. When a step value obtained by offsetting multiplexed-wavelengthcommissioning steps of a plurality of to-be-commissioned services on thecommissioning station in positive and negative directions is equal tothe third threshold, it may be considered that themultiplexed-wavelength commissioning steps of the plurality ofto-be-commissioned services on the commissioning station are proper, orit may be considered that the multiplexed-wavelength commissioning stepsof the plurality of to-be-commissioned services on the commissioningstation are improper.

A value of the third threshold is not limited in this embodiment of thisapplication. For example, the third threshold may be an empirical value,for example, may be determined based on a statistical value ofhistorical data. For another example, the third threshold may bepre-specified, for example, predefined in a protocol.

Example 2: Inter-station (OCH level) step constraint (namely, an OCHservice dimension): A co-directional cumulative step of all networkelements through which a same service passes does not exceed a fourththreshold.

The fourth threshold may also be used to determine whether acommissioning step of a to-be-commissioned service on each commissioningstation is proper.

For example, the fourth threshold may be used for comparison with aco-directional cumulative step of all commissioning stations throughwhich a same service passes. If the co-directional cumulative step ofall the commissioning stations through which the same service passes isexcessively large and exceeds the fourth threshold, it indicates thatcommissioning steps of the to-be-commissioned service on thecommissioning stations are improper or are not optimal.

No limitation is imposed on an “equal” case in this embodiment of thisapplication. When a co-directional cumulative step of all commissioningstations through which a same service passes is equal to the fourththreshold, it may be considered that commissioning steps of theto-be-commissioned service on all the commissioning stations areimproper, or it may be considered that commissioning steps of theto-be-commissioned service on all the commissioning stations are proper.

A value of the fourth threshold is not limited in this embodiment ofthis application. For example, the fourth threshold may be an empiricalvalue, for example, may be determined based on a statistical value ofhistorical data. For another example, the fourth threshold may bepre-specified, for example, predefined in a protocol.

Based on the foregoing Example 1 and Example 2, a cumulative step of aplurality of services on a single station (includingmultiplexed-wavelength and single-wavelength adjustment amounts) and aco-directional cumulative step of an OCH service on commissioningstations may be comprehensively considered. For example, if a valueobtained by offsetting commissioning steps of a plurality ofto-be-commissioned services passing through an OMS section on a samecommissioning station in positive and negative directions exceeds thethird threshold, and a co-directional cumulative step of all networkelements through which a same service passes exceeds the fourththreshold, adjustment amounts of all commissioning stations may beadjusted based on a proportion, to determine optimalprimary-optical-path (namely, multiplexed-wavelength) andsingle-wavelength commissioning steps of a single commissioning stationthis time. For another example, if a value obtained by offsettingcommissioning steps of a plurality of to-be-commissioned servicespassing through an OMS section on a same commissioning station inpositive and negative directions exceeds the third threshold, or aco-directional cumulative step of all network elements through which asame service passes exceeds the fourth threshold, adjustment amounts ofall commissioning stations may be adjusted based on a proportion, todetermine optimal primary-optical-path (namely, multiplexed-wavelength)and single-wavelength commissioning steps of a single commissioningstation this time.

Optionally, the control device may deliver commissioning information aplurality of times. For example, each time the control device deliverscommissioning information, the control device may calculate a preferredor an optimal adjustment step of a to-be-commissioned service. Forexample, calculation is performed based on Example 1 and Example 2. Foranother example, when commissioning is performed a plurality of times,small-step commissioning may be used during a single time ofcommissioning, so that commissioning security can be improved.

Based on the foregoing solution, a single-OMS step constraint, anOCH-level co-directional commissioning step constraint, small-stepcommissioning, and a plurality of times of small-step deliverycommissioning are considered, so that a considerable performancefluctuation caused by an excessively large adjustment amount deliveredonce is avoided, thereby improving commissioning security. In addition,the solution of Aspect 3 can provide hedge assurance, that is, parallelcommissioning implements a small-step hedge of upstream and downstreampower to avoid a fluctuation. In addition, the solution of Aspect 3 canfurther provide assurance for a case in which co-directionalcommissioning values take effect, that is, considering asynchronouscommunication of network elements, a co-directional step constraint islimited.

Aspect 4: The control device may calculate an adjustment step of anaffected service.

The affected service, an affected wavelength service, or an affectedold-wavelength service is used to represent a wavelength serviceaffected by a to-be-commissioned wavelength (namely, a wavelength onwhich optical power commissioning needs to be performed).

For example, the control device may calculate an optimal adjustment stepof the affected service.

In this embodiment of this application, to protect performance of theaffected old wavelength against degradation (for example, OSNRdegradation), a pre-adjustment amount of old-wavelength optical powermay be calculated by comparing old-wavelength degradation amounts beforeand after commissioning.

A commissioning value of the affected old wavelength cannot beaccurately calculated before the to-be-commissioned service iscommissioned for the first time. To improve accuracy, after the firsttime of commissioning of the to-be-commissioned wavelength takes effect,a degradation amount of the affected old wavelength may be calculated,and repeated iterations are performed until the affected old wavelengthis not degraded, so that accuracy of a pre-adjustment amount of opticalpower of the affected old wavelength can be improved.

For example, historical optical-amplifier OSNR loss values of theaffected old-wavelength service on a plurality of commissioning stationsare recorded. After the first time of parallel service commissioningtakes effect, real-time optical-amplifier OSNR loss values of theaffected old-wavelength service on the plurality of commissioningstations may be obtained, a difference between the two may becalculated, and single-wavelength commissioning steps of the affectedold-wavelength service on the plurality of commissioning stations may bedetermined.

For example, the single-wavelength commissioning steps of the affectedold-wavelength service on the plurality of commissioning stations may bedifferences between the historical optical-amplifier OSNR loss values ofthe affected old-wavelength service and the real-time optical-amplifierOSNR loss values of the affected old-wavelength service. The historicaloptical-amplifier OSNR loss values of the affected old-wavelengthservice represent the historical optical-amplifier OSNR loss values ofthe affected old-wavelength service on the plurality of commissioningstations, for example, recorded optical-amplifier OSNR losses of theaffected old-wavelength service on the plurality of commissioningstations before the first time of parallel service commissioning. Thereal-time optical-amplifier OSNR loss values of the affectedold-wavelength service represent the real-time optical-amplifier OSNRloss values of the affected old-wavelength service on the plurality ofcommissioning stations after the first time of parallel servicecommissioning takes effect.

Based on the foregoing solution, parallel commissioning reliability andsecurity can be ensured, and further, impact on the affectedold-wavelength service can be reduced, security of the affectedold-wavelength service can be ensured to the greatest extent, andoverall system performance can be improved.

Aspect 5: Format of the commissioning information

Optionally, after calculating the commissioning information, the controldevice may deliver commissioning values or adjustment amounts to Ncommissioning stations in parallel based on commissioning locations andcommissioning steps, so that the commissioning stations perform opticalpower commissioning, optimization commissioning, or optical layercommissioning.

For example, a PCEP path computation LSP update request (PCUpd) messagemay be extended, to package commissioning information (or multi-faultinformation) of current commissioning in one message and send themessage to a same destination station. For example, the commissioninginformation may include but is not limited to at least one of thefollowing information: an optical amplifier gain, an optical amplifiergain adjustment amount, and an adjustment node; an EVOA loss, an opticalloss adjustment amount, and an adjustment node; a wavelength channelnumber, a WSS single-wavelength adjustment amount, and an adjustmentnode of a to-be-commissioned wavelength; and a wavelength channelnumber, a WSS single-wavelength adjustment amount, and an adjustmentnode of an affected wavelength.

The adjustment node represents a commissioning station. From theadjustment node information, commissioning stations corresponding tocorresponding adjustment amounts can be learned.

A single-wavelength adjustment node needs to be carried in an LSPattribute.

In addition, a quantity of affected old wavelengths in one OMS sectionindicates a quantity of affected old wavelengths that need to bepre-adjusted. For example, an adjustment step of each affected oldwavelength may be determined based on the solution of Aspect 4.

For example, the commissioning information includes an optical amplifiergain, an optical amplifier gain adjustment amount, and an adjustmentnode. Correspondingly, after receiving the commissioning information,the adjustment node (namely, a commissioning station) may determine aprimary-optical-path or multiplexed-wavelength adjustment amount basedon the commissioning information. In other words, the adjustment node(namely, the commissioning station) commissions primary-optical-path ormultiplexed-wavelength optical power based on the optical amplifier gainadjustment amount.

For example, the commissioning information includes a wavelength channelnumber, a WSS single-wavelength adjustment amount, and an adjustmentnode of a to-be-commissioned wavelength. Correspondingly, afterreceiving the commissioning information, the adjustment node (namely, acommissioning station) may determine a to-be-commissioned wavelength andan adjustment amount of the to-be-commissioned wavelength based on thecommissioning information. In other words, the adjustment node (namely,the commissioning station) commissions optical power of theto-be-commissioned wavelength based on the WSS single-wavelengthadjustment amount.

For example, the commissioning information includes a wavelength channelnumber, a WSS single-wavelength adjustment amount, and an adjustmentnode of an affected wavelength. Correspondingly, after receiving thecommissioning information, the adjustment node (namely, a commissioningstation) may determine an affected old wavelength and an adjustmentamount of the affected old wavelength based on the commissioninginformation. In other words, the adjustment node (namely, thecommissioning station) adjusts optical power of the affected oldwavelength based on the WSS single-wavelength adjustment amount, toreduce impact of a to-be-commissioned wavelength on the affected oldwavelength and ensure security of the affected old wavelength to thegreatest extent.

It should be understood that the foregoing examples are merely examplesfor description, and do not constitute a limitation.

The foregoing describes solutions about the commission information infive aspects. This is not limited in this embodiment of thisapplication. For example, the content in the foregoing aspects may beused alone, or may be used in combination. For another example, thecontrol device may further determine more commissioning information, sothat the commissioning station can perform optical power commissioningor optimization commissioning based on the commissioning information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of this application, the control devicemay further query related optical power information of theto-be-commissioned service and the affected service.

After the commissioning station performs optimization commissioningbased on the commissioning information, the commissioning station mayfeed back a response indicating that current commissioning is completedto the control device. For example, the response may be denoted as acommissioning response. Correspondingly, the control device may querythe related optical power information of the to-be-commissioned serviceand the affected service based on the commissioning response that is fedback, to determine whether optimization commissioning is completed,whether further commissioning needs to be performed, or the like.Specifically, the following two solutions may be included.

Solution 1: After each time of commissioning, the control device queriesthe related optical power information of the to-be-commissioned serviceand the affected service.

In this solution, after completing current commissioning, thecommissioning station may feed back a commissioning response indicatingthat the commissioning is completed to the control device.

In a possible case, after receiving the commissioning response, thecontrol device actively queries the related optical power information ofthe to-be-commissioned service and the affected service, and maycontinue to perform processing in Aspect 1 to Aspect 5. An actual powervalue of the to-be-commissioned service gradually approaches a targetvalue, and finally, a difference between service multiplexed-wavelengthor single-wavelength optical power of each OMS section and targetoptical power falls within a specific value range. In this case, itindicates that the current service optimization commissioning iscompleted.

In another possible case, after receiving the commissioning response,the control device actively queries the related optical powerinformation of the to-be-commissioned service and the affected service,and a difference between service multiplexed-wavelength orsingle-wavelength optical power of each OMS section and target opticalpower falls within a specific value range. In this case, it indicatesthat the current service optimization commissioning is completed.

For example, when the difference between the servicemultiplexed-wavelength or single-wavelength optical power of each OMSsection and the target optical power is less than or equal to 0.5 dB, itindicates that the current service optimization commissioning iscompleted. It should be understood that 0.5 dB is merely an example fordescription, and this is not limited in this embodiment of thisapplication.

Based on Solution 1, a commissioning result can be monitored in realtime, so that overall commissioning efficiency can be improved, andunnecessary commissioning and time costs and calculation costs caused byunnecessary commissioning can be reduced.

Solution 2: When a specific condition is met, the control device queriesthe related optical power information of the to-be-commissioned serviceand the affected service.

That is, the control device does not need to query the related opticalpower information of the to-be-commissioned service and the affectedservice after each time of commissioning or each round of commissioningof the commissioning station. When the specific condition is met, thecontrol device may query the related optical power information of theto-be-commissioned service and the affected service, to reduce a wasteof time and impact on the service.

In a possible case, when a quantity of commissioning times reaches apreset quantity of times, the control device queries the related opticalpower information of the to-be-commissioned service and the affectedservice.

For example, when a quantity of commissioning times of any commissioningstation reaches a preset quantity of times, the control device may querythe related optical power information of the to-be-commissioned serviceand the affected service.

For another example, when a total quantity of commissioning times of allcommissioning stations reaches a preset quantity of times, the controldevice may query the related optical power information of theto-be-commissioned service and the affected service.

It should be understood that the preset quantity of times may be used todetermine whether the control device needs to query the related opticalpower information of the to-be-commissioned service and the affectedservice.

For example, the preset quantity of times may be used for comparisonwith a quantity of commissioning times of any commissioning station orthe total quantity of commissioning times of all the commissioningstations. For example, taking any commissioning station as an example,if a quantity of commissioning times of any commissioning stationreaches the preset quantity of times, after current commissioning ends,the control device may query the related optical power information ofthe to-be-commissioned service and the affected service. For anotherexample, taking all the commissioning stations as an example, if thequantity of commissioning times of all the commissioning stationsreaches the preset quantity of times, after current commissioning ends,the control device may query the related optical power information ofthe to-be-commissioned service and the affected service.

It should be understood that the preset quantity of times compared witha quantity of commissioning times of any commissioning station and thepreset quantity of times compared with the quantity of commissioningtimes of all the commissioning stations may be different, or may be thesame, and there is no strict relationship between the two presetquantities of times. In other words, one preset quantity of times may beset, and the preset quantity of times is used for comparison with aquantity of commissioning times of any commissioning station; or onepreset quantity of times may be set, and the preset quantity of times isused for comparison with the quantity of commissioning times of all thecommissioning stations.

A value of the preset quantity of times is not limited in thisembodiment of this application. For example, the preset quantity oftimes may be an empirical value, for example, may be determined based ona statistical value of historical data. For another example, the presetquantity of times may be pre-specified, for example, predefined in aprotocol.

In another possible case, when a commissioning amount reaches a presetcommissioning amount, the control device queries the related opticalpower information of the to-be-commissioned service and the affectedservice.

For example, when a commissioning amount of any commissioning stationreaches a first threshold, the control device may query the relatedoptical power information of the to-be-commissioned service and theaffected service.

For another example, when a total commissioning amount of allcommissioning stations reaches a second threshold, the control devicemay query the related optical power information of theto-be-commissioned service and the affected service.

It should be understood that the preset commissioning amount (forexample, the first threshold and the second threshold) may be used todetermine whether the control device needs to query the related opticalpower information of the to-be-commissioned service and the affectedservice.

For example, the first threshold may be used for comparison with acommissioning amount of any commissioning station, or the secondthreshold may be used for comparison with the total commissioning amountof all the commissioning stations. For example, taking any commissioningstation as an example, if a commissioning amount of any commissioningstation reaches the first threshold, after current commissioning ends,the control device may query the related optical power information ofthe to-be-commissioned service and the affected service. For anotherexample, taking all the commissioning stations as an example, if thetotal commissioning amount of all the commissioning stations reaches thesecond threshold, after current commissioning ends, the control devicemay query the related optical power information of theto-be-commissioned service and the affected service.

It should be understood that the first threshold compared with acommissioning amount of any commissioning station and the secondthreshold compared with the total commissioning amount of all thecommissioning stations may be different, or may be the same, and thereis no strict relationship between the first threshold and the secondthreshold. In other words, one first threshold may be set, and the firstthreshold is used for comparison with a commissioning amount of anycommissioning station; or one second threshold may be set, and thesecond threshold is used for comparison with the total commissioningamount of all the commissioning stations.

A value of the preset commissioning amount is not limited in thisembodiment of this application. For example, the preset commissioningamount may be an empirical value, for example, may be determined basedon a statistical value of historical data. For another example, thepreset commissioning amount may be pre-specified, for example,predefined in a protocol.

The foregoing two cases are described as examples, and this embodimentof this application is not limited thereto. For example, the foregoingtwo cases may be used alone, or may be used in combination. This is notlimited.

In Solution 2, when the specific condition is met, the control devicequeries the related optical power information of the to-be-commissionedservice and the affected service, and may continue to perform processingin Aspect 1 to Aspect 5. The actual power value of theto-be-commissioned service gradually approaches the target value, andfinally, the difference between the service multiplexed-wavelength orsingle-wavelength optical power of each OMS section and the targetoptical power falls within the specific value range. In this case, itindicates that the current service optimization commissioning iscompleted. Alternatively, when the specific condition is met, thecontrol device queries the related optical power information of theto-be-commissioned service and the affected service, and the differencebetween the service multiplexed-wavelength or single-wavelength opticalpower of each OMS section and the target optical power falls within thespecific value range. In this case, it indicates that the currentservice optimization commissioning is completed.

For example, when the difference between the servicemultiplexed-wavelength or single-wavelength optical power of each OMSsection and the target optical power is less than or equal to 0.5 dB, itindicates that the current service optimization commissioning iscompleted. It should be understood that 0.5 dB is merely an example fordescription, and this is not limited in this embodiment of thisapplication.

In Solution 2, the commissioning station may feed back a commissioningresponse after each time of commissioning is completed, or may feed backa commissioning response when the specific condition is met.

Based on Solution 2, a commissioning step of the to-be-commissionedservice may be calculated without using the solution in Aspect 3.Small-step commissioning may be used during each time of commissioning,so that an excessively large adjustment amount of a single time ofcommissioning can be avoided, and commissioning security can beimproved. In addition, time costs and calculation costs caused byfrequently querying real-time optical power by the control device canalso be reduced. Especially, when a network topology is relatively largeand a span of network elements through which a to-be-commissionedservice and an affected service pass is relatively large, an automaticparallel optimization commissioning manner in which a plurality of timesof small-step delivery commissioning are performed for each station andfeedback is performed when a specific condition (for example, after aspecific commissioning amount is reached through accumulation) is met isconsidered, to reduce time of querying real-time optical power by thecontrol device a plurality of times. In addition, small-step delivery isperformed for each commissioning station, and an adjustment amountdelivered at a small step for the second time may carry an adjustmentamount of the affected service, so that security of the old-wavelengthservice is ensured.

The foregoing describes in detail the parallel commissioning solutionprovided in this embodiment of this application. The paralleloptimization commissioning method may be applied to a serviceprovisioning scenario, and optimization commissioning is supplementedwith low-power parallel wavelength adding, so that automaticoptimization commissioning can be implemented, and service performancecan be quickly improved. The parallel optimization commissioning methodmay be further applied to a rerouting scenario, and optimizationcommissioning is supplemented with low-power parallel wavelength adding,so that a new service can be quickly provisioned while security of anold wavelength is ensured. In this embodiment of this application, aservice optimization commissioning solution in a complex scenario inwhich there are a plurality of wavelength services and a plurality offaults and multipoint coupling degradation of a single wavelength and aprimary optical path occurs can be provided, so that the solution isapplicable to more commissioning scenarios. Based on the parallelcommissioning solution provided in this embodiment of this application,a service interruption problem caused by single-point serialcommissioning can be resolved. In addition, in some embodiments, impacton upstream and downstream OMS sections is considered together, so thata relative adjustment amount of each commissioning station iscalculated, and upstream and downstream adjustment amounts naturallyhedge against each other. Centralized protocol control is performed toimplement multi-service (for example, the control device controls aplurality of services), multi-OMS section, and multi-commissioningstation parallel optimization commissioning, so that commissioningefficiency and security are greatly improved.

For ease of understanding, the following describes a possible completeprocedure by using a specific example.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram applicable to embodiments of thisapplication.

It is assumed that power commissioning needs to be performed on awavelength service. For example, if service performance is degraded dueto optical fiber cutover, optical fiber degradation, intra-stationinsertion loss degradation, and an improper manual operation, powercommissioning needs to be performed on the wavelength service. Thefollowing describes a possible procedure of optical power commissioningwith reference to FIG. 6 .

As shown in FIG. 6 , it is assumed that four stations and one controldevice are included. The stations are denoted as a station A, a stationB, a station C, and a station D for distinguishing. The control devicemay be deployed in a standalone server, or may be deployed in a networkelement device (for example, any one of the station A, the station B,the station C, and the station D) with a strong capability. A firstapparatus (for example, a NETWORK_OD apparatus) is deployed in thecontrol device, and is enabled, so that the first apparatus can performan automatic optimization commissioning service.

It is assumed that there are four services in the network: an oldwavelength 1 (namely, an old-wavelength service 1): the station A -> thestation B -> the station D, an old wavelength 2 (namely, anold-wavelength service 2): the station B -> the station C, an oldwavelength 3 (namely, an old-wavelength service 3): the station A -> thestation B, and an old wavelength 4 (namely, an old-wavelength service4): the station A -> the station B -> the station C. The old wavelength1 and the old wavelength 2 are affected wavelengths (namely, affectedservices). For distinguishing, the old wavelength 1 is denoted as anaffected wavelength 1, and the old wavelength 2 is denoted as anaffected wavelength 2. The old wavelength 3 and the old wavelength 4 areto-be-commissioned wavelengths (namely, to-be-commissioned services).For distinguishing, the old wavelength 3 is denoted as ato-be-commissioned wavelength 3, and the old wavelength 4 is denoted asa to-be-commissioned wavelength 4. It should be understood that FIG. 6is merely an example for description, and there may be more wavelengthservices or more stations in practice.

The following describes a possible complete procedure.

Step 1: A control device automatically monitors network-wide opticalperformance data in real time. The device collects millisecond serviceoptical performance data in real time per station.

In a possible implementation, a network element device may reportsingle-station board optical performance data to the control device byusing an extended path computation element communication protocol. Itmay be understood that the control device may interact with each networkelement device by using a field (for example, an extended field) in aPCEP message.

For example, the optical performance data may include but is not limitedto input/output multiplexed-wavelength optical power of an opticalamplifier board, single-wavelength optical power, an optical amplifiergain, an EVOA loss value, and a service BER.

Taking FIG. 6 as an example, in step 1, all stations such as the stationA, the station B, the station C, and the station D collect millisecondservice optical performance data, and report the collected serviceoptical performance data to the control device.

For reporting the service optical performance data by the station, referto the descriptions of step 401 in the method 400. Details are notdescribed herein again.

Step 2: The control device identifies a to-be-commissioned service onwhich optical power commissioning needs to be performed.

In step 2, the control device may automatically identify network-widebatch performance-degraded services based on the service opticalperformance data obtained in step 1.

In a possible implementation, the control device identifies, based on atleast one of the following, a to-be-commissioned service on whichoptical power commissioning needs to be performed: whethermultiplexed-wavelength output power of each OMS section of a servicedeviates from a target value, whether an OSNR loss of each service inthe OMS is flat, a BER identified for a single-wavelength service,whether optical power of an OTU receive end is abnormal, and whetheroptical power of a transmit end is abnormal.

For identifying, by the control device based on the service opticalperformance data, the to-be-commissioned service on which optical powercommissioning needs to be performed, refer to the descriptions in themethod 400. Details are not described herein again.

Step 3: The control device calculates target optical power of theto-be-commissioned service.

The target optical power is nominal optical power or expected opticalpower, or is optical power expected after the to-be-commissioned serviceis commissioned. The control device calculates the target optical powerof the to-be-commissioned service. When each OMS section reaches targetpower, or optical power of each OMS section is adjusted to targetoptical power, it indicates that the commissioning is completed.

For example, target primary-optical-path optical power may be calculatedfor a primary optical path on the OMS section based on a rule that anoptical amplifier gain is used to compensate for a line loss. It may beunderstood that the target primary-optical-path optical power iscalculated for a primary optical path on each OMS section based on therule that an optical amplifier gain is used to compensate for a lineloss.

For another example, target single-wavelength optical power is an OMStransmit-end single-wavelength optical power in a case of OSNR lossequalization that is calculated based on a currently monitored value. Itmay be understood that for a single service, the OMS transmit-endsingle-wavelength optical power in the case of OSNR loss equalization iscalculated based on the currently monitored value and used as the targetoptical power.

Taking FIG. 6 as an example, the to-be-commissioned wavelength 1(namely, the to-be-commissioned service 1) and the to-be-commissionedwavelength 2 (namely, the to-be-commissioned service 2) pass through anOMS section 1 and an OMS section 2. Target primary-optical-path opticalpower is calculated for a primary optical path on each OMS section basedon a rule that an optical amplifier gain is used to compensate for aline loss, and for a single service, OMS transmit-end single-wavelengthoptical power in a case of OSNR loss equalization is calculated based ona currently monitored value and used as target optical power.

After determining the target optical power, the control device maycalculate commissioning locations and a corresponding totalcommissioning amount.

Step 4: The control device analyzes and calculates the commissioninglocations and the total commissioning amount by using an optimizationpolicy.

For example, an absolute total adjustment amount of the OMS section iscalculated.

Taking FIG. 6 as an example, the to-be-commissioned wavelength 1(namely, the to-be-commissioned service 1) and the to-be-commissionedwavelength 2 (namely, the to-be-commissioned service 2) pass through theOMS section 1 and the OMS section 2. An absolute total adjustment amountof each OMS section is independently calculated.

For example, an absolute total primary-optical-path adjustment amount ofthe OMS section may be a difference between an optical amplifier gainand a multiplexed-wavelength loss. That is, the difference between theoptical amplifier gain and the optical-path loss value of a primaryoptical path on the OMS section is calculated, and the difference is theabsolute total optical-path adjustment amount.

For another example, an absolute total single-wavelength adjustmentamount of the OMS section may be a value obtained by subtracting actualsingle-wavelength optical power from target single-wavelength opticalpower. That is, the value obtained by subtracting the actualsingle-wavelength optical power from the target single-wavelengthoptical power on the OMS section is calculated, and the value is theabsolute total single-wavelength adjustment amount.

For another example, a relative total adjustment amount of the OMSsection is calculated.

For example, a relative adjustment amount of a commissioning station maybe an absolute total adjustment amount of the commissioning stationminus a cumulative adjustment amount of all upstream commissioningstations of the commissioning station.

Descriptions are provided with reference to FIG. 7 .

Relative total adjustment amount ΔP1 of a commissioning station A =Absolute total adjustment amount of the commissioning station A – Totalcumulative amount of all adjustment nodes before the commissioningstation A = Total absolute adjustment amount of the commissioningstation A

Relative total adjustment amount ΔP2 of a commissioning station B =Absolute total adjustment amount of the commissioning station B – Totalcumulative amount of all adjustment nodes before the commissioningstation B = Total absolute adjustment amount of the commissioningstation B - Total adjustment amount of the commissioning station A

Relative total adjustment amount ΔP3 of a commissioning station C =Absolute total adjustment amount of the commissioning station C – Totalcumulative amount of all adjustment nodes before the commissioningstation C = Total absolute adjustment amount of the commissioningstation C - Total adjustment amount of the commissioning station A -Total adjustment amount of the commissioning station B

Considering that service-upstream optical power changes after beingcommissioned and service-downstream optical power also changesaccordingly, through a hedge of upstream and downstream adjustmentamounts, an adjustment amount of a downstream station maybe anadjustment amount of optical power of each wavelength of the downstreamstation minus a cumulative adjustment amount of all preceding OMSs, andno separate cutoff operation needs to be performed.

After determining the total commissioning amount, the control device mayanalyze the commissioning locations and a commissioning step of eachcommissioning station.

Step 5: The control device analyzes and calculates the commissioninglocations and commissioning steps by using the optimization policy.

The control device may analyze and calculate the commissioninglocations, a commissioning step of the to-be-commissioned service, and acommissioning step of an affected service by using the optimizationpolicy based on calculated service target power and an expected effect.The following separately provides descriptions.

1. The commissioning step of the to-be-commissioned service

The control device may calculate an optimal adjustment step of theto-be-commissioned service.

In a possible implementation, with consideration of impact ofcommissioning on security of another wavelength and a requirement forcommissioning performance, commissioning steps of commissioning stationsmay be delivered in parallel based on OMS sections by considering asingle-station step constraint and an inter-station co-directionalcommissioning step constraint.

Example 1: Single-station (OMS) step constraint (namely, an OMS sectiondimension). Commissioning steps of a plurality of to-be-commissionedservices passing through the OMS section on a same station are offset inpositive and negative directions does not exceed a third threshold.

The station A in FIG. 6 is used as an example. Multiplexed-wavelengthcommissioning steps of the to-be-commissioned wavelength 1 (namely, theto-be-commissioned service 1) and the to-be-commissioned wavelength 2(namely, the to-be-commissioned service 2) on the station A are offsetin positive and negative directions does not exceed the third threshold,and WSS single-wavelength commissioning steps of the to-be-commissionedwavelength 1 (namely, the to-be-commissioned service 1) and theto-be-commissioned wavelength 2 (namely, the to-be-commissioned service2) on the station A are offset in positive and negative directions doesnot exceed the third threshold.

Example 2: Inter-station (OCH level) step constraint (namely, an OCHservice dimension). A co-directional cumulative step of all networkelements through which a same service passes does not exceed a fourththreshold.

Taking FIG. 6 as an example, the to-be-commissioned wavelength 2(namely, the to-be-commissioned service 2) passes through the station A,the station B, and the station C. It is assumed that commissioning stepsof the three stations through which the service passes are 0.6 dB, -1.2dB, and 0.6 dB, and the fourth threshold is 1.6 dB. In this case, apositive cumulative step value is 1.2 dB (that is, 0.6 + 0.6 = 1.2), anda negative cumulative step value is 1.2 dB (that is, 1.2). 1.2 dB isless than 1.6 dB. Therefore, each co-directional cumulative step doesnot exceed the fourth threshold.

The foregoing is merely a brief description. For details of thecommissioning step of the to-be-commissioned service, refer to thedescriptions of Aspect 3 in the method 400. Details are not describedherein again.

2. The commissioning step of the affected service

The control device may calculate an optimal adjustment step of theaffected service.

In this embodiment of this application, to protect performance of theaffected old wavelength against degradation (for example, OSNRdegradation), a pre-adjustment amount of old-wavelength power may becalculated by comparing old-wavelength degradation amounts before andafter commissioning.

A commissioning value of the affected old wavelength cannot beaccurately calculated before the to-be-commissioned wavelength iscommissioned for the first time. To improve accuracy, after the firsttime of commissioning of the to-be-commissioned wavelength takes effect,an old-wavelength degradation amount may be calculated, and repeatediterations are performed until the old wavelength is not degraded, sothat a corresponding pre-adjustment amount of the old wavelength isrelatively accurate.

For example, historical optical-amplifier OSNR loss values of theold-wavelength service on the station A and the station B are recorded.After the first time of parallel service commissioning takes effect,real-time optical-amplifier OSNR loss values of the old-wavelengthservice may be obtained, a difference between the two may be calculated,and single-wavelength commissioning steps of the affected service on thestation A and the station B may be determined.

The foregoing is merely a brief description. For details of thecommissioning step of the affected service, refer to the descriptions ofAspect 4 in the method 400. Details are not described herein again.

Step 6: The control device delivers commissioning values (orcommissioning information) to the commissioning stations (or NE_ODapparatuses configured in the commissioning stations) in parallel basedon the commissioning locations and the commissioning steps.

After calculating optical power adjustment amounts of theto-be-commissioned wavelength 1, the to-be-commissioned wavelength 2,and the affected old wavelengths 1 and 2 on the OMS 1 and the OMS 2, thecontrol device needs to deliver the information to corresponding nodes(namely, the commissioning stations).

For example, a PCEP PCUpd message may be extended, to packagecommissioning information (or multi-fault information) of currentcommissioning in one message and send the message to a same destinationstation. For example, the commissioning information may include but isnot limited to at least one of the following information: an opticalamplifier gain, an optical amplifier gain adjustment amount, and anadjustment node; an EVOA loss, an optical loss adjustment amount, and anadjustment node; a wavelength channel number, a WSS single-wavelengthadjustment amount, and an adjustment node of a to-be-commissionedwavelength; and a wavelength channel number, a WSS single-wavelengthadjustment amount, and an adjustment node of an affected wavelength.

Commissioning information of different commissioning stations isdifferent. The commissioning station A and the commissioning station Bin FIG. 6 are used as examples.

Example (1). Send a PCEP PCUpd message to the commissioning station A,where commissioning information included in the message may include: anoptical amplifier gain, an optical amplifier gain adjustment amount, andan adjustment node; an EVOA loss, an optical loss adjustment amount, andan adjustment node; a wavelength channel number, a WSS single-wavelengthadjustment amount, and an adjustment node of the to-be-commissionedwavelength 1; a wavelength channel number, a WSS single-wavelengthadjustment amount, and an adjustment node of the to-be-commissionedwavelength 2; and a wavelength channel number, a WSS single-wavelengthadjustment amount, and an adjustment node of the affected wavelength 1.

Example (2). Send a PCEP PCUpd message to the commissioning station B,where commissioning information included in the message may include: anoptical amplifier gain, an optical amplifier gain adjustment amount, andan adjustment node; an EVOA loss, an optical loss adjustment amount, andan adjustment node; a wavelength channel number, a WSS single-wavelengthadjustment amount, and an adjustment node of the to-be-commissionedwavelength 2; a wavelength channel number, a WSS single-wavelengthadjustment amount, and an adjustment node of the affected wavelength 1;and a wavelength channel number, a WSS single-wavelength adjustmentamount, and an adjustment node of the affected wavelength 2.

The foregoing is merely a brief description. For details of step 6,refer to the descriptions of Aspect 5 in the method 400. Details are notdescribed herein again.

Step 7: The control device receives a commissioning complete response(for example, denoted as a commissioning response) of each OMS sectionin a current round, and actively queries related optical powerinformation of the to-be-commissioned service and the affected service.

In a possible case, after receiving the commissioning response, thecontrol device actively queries the related optical power information ofthe to-be-commissioned service and the affected service, and mayre-perform step 2 to step 5. An actual power value of theto-be-commissioned service gradually approaches a target value, andfinally, a difference between service multiplexed-wavelength orsingle-wavelength optical power of each OMS section and target opticalpower falls within a specific value range. In this case, it indicatesthat the current service optimization commissioning is completed.

In another possible case, after receiving the commissioning response,the control device actively queries the related optical powerinformation of the to-be-commissioned service and the affected service,and a difference between service multiplexed-wavelength orsingle-wavelength optical power of each OMS section and target opticalpower falls within a specific value range. In this case, it indicatesthat the current service optimization commissioning is completed.

For example, when the difference between the servicemultiplexed-wavelength or single-wavelength optical power of each OMSsection and the target optical power is less than or equal to 0.5 dB, itindicates that the current service optimization commissioning iscompleted. It should be understood that 0.5 dB is merely an example fordescription, and this is not limited in this embodiment of thisapplication.

Based on the foregoing technical solution, for example, a NETWORK_ODapparatus is deployed on the control device, and a PCEP protocol isextended to automatically monitor the network-wide optical performancedata in real time, so that the control device (or the NETWORK_ODapparatus deployed on the control device) automatically identifies thenetwork-wide batch performance-degraded services. In addition, thecontrol device calculates the service target power and the expectedeffect, analyzes and calculates the commissioning locations and thecommissioning steps (of the to-be-commissioned service and the affectedservice) by using the optimization policy, and controls a plurality ofservices, a plurality of OMS sections, and a plurality of commissioningstations by using the PCEP protocol for parallel commissioning. In thisway, in an optimization commissioning process, parallel commissioning isperformed to the greatest extent while security of the old wavelength isensured, so that optimization commissioning efficiency is improved.

In addition, the control device delivers batch commissioning values ofdifferent network elements (namely, different commissioning stations) inparallel at the same time. Considering different communication timebetween commissioning stations, it cannot be ensured that all thecommissioning values take effect at the same time. Therefore, thecontrol device may deliver optimal commissioning steps of thecommissioning stations at the same time, and synchronously performoptical power pre-adjustment on affected services. The commissioningstations adjust optical power in parallel to make the optical powergradually approach target power, so that secure and quick optimizationis implemented, thereby ensuring parallel commissioning reliability andsecurity.

The foregoing describes a specific example with reference to FIG. 6 andstep 1 to step 7. In a centralized control scenario, for example, aNETWORK_OD apparatus is deployed on a control device, and a PCEPprotocol is extended to support automatic parallel optimizationcommissioning. Specifically, the control device delivers a first roundof adjustment amounts in parallel, and after commissioning stationsreturn commissioning responses, queries real-time optical powerinformation of a to-be-commissioned service and a related affectedservice, and re-performs delivery to perform a second round of parallelcommissioning, until one optimization commissioning process is completedafter a plurality of rounds of commissioning. This parallel optimizationcommissioning manner has a relatively accurate result.

The following still uses FIG. 6 as an example to describe anotherspecific example with reference to step A to step F. For example, aNETWORK_OD apparatus is deployed on a control device, and a PCEPprotocol is extended, so that an automatic parallel optimizationcommissioning manner in which a plurality of times of small-stepdelivery commissioning are performed and feedback is performed when aspecific condition (for example, after a cumulative commissioning amountreaches a threshold) is met.

Step A: The control device automatically monitors network-wide opticalperformance data in real time: The device collects millisecond serviceoptical performance data in real time per station.

For this step, refer to the foregoing step 1.

Step B: The control device identifies a to-be-commissioned service onwhich optical power commissioning needs to be performed.

For this step, refer to the foregoing step 2.

Step C: The control device calculates target optical power of theto-be-commissioned service.

For this step, refer to the foregoing step 3.

Step D: The control device analyzes and calculates commissioninglocations and a total commissioning amount by using an optimizationpolicy.

For this step, refer to the foregoing step 4.

Step E: The control device delivers commissioning information (which mayalso be denoted as a commissioning request) to each commissioningstation.

The control device may perform delivery commissioning based on a smallstep (for example, 0.2 dB). Because the commissioning step is relativelysmall, and impact of commissioning values of a service in positive andnegative directions is offset, an affected service is little affectedeven if not all commissioning values take effect at the same timebecause a communication difference between network elements exists.After receiving a commissioning response fed back by each commissioningstation, the control device continues to deliver commissioninginformation (or a commissioning request) at a small step. When aspecific condition is met after a plurality of rounds of commissioning,a current round of small-step commissioning ends.

In a possible case, the current round of small-step commissioning endswhen a quantity of commissioning times reaches a preset quantity oftimes.

For example, the current round of small-step commissioning may end whena quantity of commissioning times of any commissioning station reaches apreset quantity of times.

For another example, the current round of small-step commissioning mayend when a total quantity of commissioning times of all thecommissioning stations reaches a preset quantity of times.

In another possible case, the current round of small-step commissioningends when a commissioning amount reaches a preset commissioning amount.

For example, the current round of small-step commissioning may end whena commissioning amount of any commissioning station reaches a firstthreshold.

For another example, the current round of small-step commissioning mayend when a total commissioning amount of all the commissioning stationsreaches a second threshold.

For details, refer to the descriptions of Solution 2 in the method 400.Details are not described herein again.

Step F: The control device queries optical power information of theto-be-commissioned service and the affected service.

It may be understood that, after a specific condition is met, thecontrol device queries the optical power information of theto-be-commissioned service and the affected service.

In a possible case, after receiving the commissioning response, thecontrol device actively queries the related optical power information ofthe to-be-commissioned service and the affected service, and mayre-perform step B to step E. An actual power value of theto-be-commissioned service gradually approaches a target value, andfinally, a difference between service multiplexed-wavelength orsingle-wavelength optical power of each OMS section and target opticalpower falls within a specific value range. In this case, it indicatesthat the current service optimization commissioning is completed.

In another possible case, after receiving the commissioning response,the control device actively queries the related optical powerinformation of the to-be-commissioned service and the affected service,and a difference between service multiplexed-wavelength orsingle-wavelength optical power of each OMS section and target opticalpower falls within a specific value range. In this case, it indicatesthat the current service optimization commissioning is completed.

For example, when the difference between the servicemultiplexed-wavelength or single-wavelength optical power of each OMSsection and the target optical power is less than or equal to 0.5 dB, itindicates that the current service optimization commissioning iscompleted. It should be understood that 0.5 dB is merely an example fordescription, and this is not limited in this embodiment of thisapplication.

The foregoing describes another specific example with reference to FIG.6 and step A to step F. In a centralized control scenario, for example,a NETWORK_OD apparatus is deployed on a control device, and a PCEPprotocol is extended, so that an automatic parallel optimizationcommissioning manner in which a plurality of times of small-stepdelivery commissioning are performed and feedback is performed when aspecific condition (for example, after a cumulative commissioning amountreaches a threshold) is met. Specifically, an automatic paralleloptimization commissioning manner in which a plurality of times ofsmall-step delivery commissioning are performed for each commissioningstation and feedback is performed when a specific condition (forexample, after a specific commissioning amount is reached throughaccumulation) is met may be considered, to reduce time of a plurality oftimes of network real-time optical power query. In addition, small-stepdelivery is performed for each commissioning station, and an adjustmentamount delivered at a small step for the second time carries anadjustment amount of an affected service, so that security of theold-wavelength service is ensured. This manner is more suitable for ascenario in which a network topology is relatively large and a span ofnetwork elements through which a to-be-commissioned service and anaffected service pass is relatively large.

It should be understood that a name of the message in the foregoingembodiment does not limit the protection scope of embodiments of thisapplication. For example, in a future protocol, a name used to indicatea function similar to that of the control device is also applicable toembodiments of this application.

Based on the foregoing technical solution, an automatic paralleloptimization commissioning method is provided. A control devicecommissioning center monitors service optical performance data in realtime, automatically identifies, based on analysis of the service opticalperformance data, a service on which optimization needs to be performed,calculates commissioning target power and an effect, determines aparallel commissioning policy, controls commissioning stations together,and performs parallel commissioning, In this way, a requirement of acustomer for quick and automatic optimization commissioning can be met.

In addition, small-step delivery may be performed to implement parallelcommissioning. When security is ensured, parallel service commissioningis implemented to the greatest extent, and efficiency is improved. Inaddition, this may be further extended to a plurality of commissioningscenarios, which, for example, may include but are not limited todeployment commissioning, expansion commissioning, reroutingcommissioning, and the like.

Further, the parallel commissioning solution provided in thisapplication can improve commissioning efficiency and ensurecommissioning security.

Commissioning efficiency can be improved. Commissioning stations performparallel commissioning, and no separate cutoff operation needs to beperformed considering that upstream and downstream adjustment amountshedge against each other. Steps of a primary optical path and a singlewavelength are independently calculated and decoupled from each other,so that repeated calculation of a multiplexed-wavelength poweradjustment amount can be avoided, and a quantity of commissioning timescan be reduced.

In addition, commissioning security can be further ensured. For example,in small-step commissioning, both a single-OMS step constraint and anOCH-level co-directional commissioning step constraint are considered.Considering asynchronous communication of network elements, aco-directional step constraint is limited, so that assurance can beprovided for a case in which commissioning values in a same directiontake effect. For another example, a plurality of times of small-stepdelivery commissioning are performed and feedback is performed when aspecific condition (for example, after a specific commissioning amountis reached through accumulation) is met, so that a considerableperformance fluctuation caused by an excessively large adjustment amountdelivered once is avoided. In addition, hedge assurance is provided,that is, parallel commissioning implements a small-step hedge ofupstream and downstream power to avoid a fluctuation.

Embodiments described in this specification may be independentsolutions, or may be combined according to internal logic. Thesesolutions fall within the protection scope of this application.

It may be understood that methods and operations implemented by thecontrol device in the foregoing method embodiments may be alternativelyimplemented by components (for example, a chip or a circuit) that may beused in the control device, and methods and operations implemented bythe commissioning station (or the network element) in the foregoingmethod embodiments may be alternatively implemented by components (forexample, a chip or a circuit) that may be used in the commissioningstation.

With reference to FIG. 4 to FIG. 7 , the foregoing describes in detailthe method provided in embodiment of this application. With reference toFIG. 8 to FIG. 12 , the following describes in detail an apparatusprovided in embodiments of this application. It should be understoodthat descriptions of the apparatus embodiments correspond to thedescriptions of the method embodiments, and therefore, for content thatis not described in detail, refer to the foregoing method embodiments.For simplicity, details are not described herein again.

It may be understood that, to implement the foregoing functions, eachdevice such as a control device or a commissioning station includes acorresponding hardware structure and/or software module for performingeach function. A person skilled in the art should be aware that withreference to units, algorithms, and steps in the examples described theembodiments disclosed in this specification, this application can beimplemented in a form of hardware or a combination of hardware andcomputer software in this application. Whether a function is performedby hardware or hardware driven by computer software depends on aparticular application and a design constraint of the technicalsolutions. A person skilled in the art may use different methods toimplement the described functions for each particular application, butit should not be considered that the implementation goes beyond thescope of this application.

In embodiments of this application, the control device and thecommissioning station may be divided into functional modules based onthe foregoing method examples. For example, functional modules may beobtained through division based on corresponding functions, or two ormore functions may be integrated into one processing module. Theintegrated module may be implemented in a form of hardware, or may beimplemented in a form of a software functional module. It should benoted that, in embodiments of this application, division into themodules is an example and is merely logical function division, and maybe other division in an actual implementation. The following uses, fordescription, an example in which functional modules are obtained throughdivision based on corresponding functions.

FIG. 8 is a schematic block diagram of an optical power commissioningapparatus according to an embodiment of this application. The apparatus800 includes a transceiver unit 810 and a processing unit 820. Thetransceiver unit 810 may implement a corresponding communicationfunction, and the processing unit 820 is configured to perform dataprocessing. The transceiver unit 810 may also be referred to as acommunication interface or a communication unit.

Optionally, the apparatus 800 may further include a storage unit, thestorage unit may be configured to store instructions and/or data, andthe processing unit 820 may read the instructions and/or the data in thestorage unit, so that the apparatus implements the foregoing methodembodiments.

The apparatus 800 may be configured to perform actions performed by acommissioning system (for example, including a control device and acommissioning station) in the foregoing method embodiments. In thiscase, the apparatus 800 may be the commissioning system or a componentthat may be configured in the commissioning system. The transceiver unit810 is configured to perform receiving/transmission related operationson a commissioning system side in the foregoing method embodiments, andthe processing unit 820 is configured to perform processing relatedoperations on the commissioning system side in the foregoing methodembodiments.

Alternatively, the apparatus 800 may be configured to perform actionsperformed by the control device in the foregoing method embodiments. Inthis case, the apparatus 800 may be the control device or a componentthat may be configured in the control device. The transceiver unit 810is configured to perform receiving/transmission related operations on acontrol device side in the foregoing method embodiments, and theprocessing unit 820 is configured to perform processing relatedoperations on the control device side in the foregoing methodembodiments.

Alternatively, the apparatus 800 may be configured to perform actionsperformed by the commissioning station in the foregoing methodembodiments. In this case, the apparatus 800 may be the commissioningstation or a component that may be configured in the commissioningstation. The transceiver unit 810 is configured to performreceiving/transmission related operations on a commissioning stationside in the foregoing method embodiments, and the processing unit 820 isconfigured to perform processing related operations on the commissioningstation side in the foregoing method embodiments.

In a design, the apparatus 800 is configured to perform actionsperformed by a commissioning system in the foregoing embodiment shown inFIG. 4 . The commissioning system may include a control device and Ncommissioning stations. N is an integer greater than or equal to 1. Theprocessing unit 820 is configured to determine M to-be-commissionedservices on which optical power commissioning needs to be performed. Mis an integer greater than or equal to 1. The transceiver unit 810 isfurther configured to send commissioning information to the Ncommissioning stations based on the M to-be-commissioned services. Thecommissioning information is used by the N commissioning stations toperform parallel optical power commissioning, and the N commissioningstations are stations on which the M to-be-commissioned services arelocated. The processing unit 820 is further configured to performoptical power commissioning based on the commissioning information.

For example, the transceiver unit 810 is further configured to receiveservice optical performance data reported by W stations. W is an integergreater than or equal to 1. The processing unit 820 is configured todetermine the M to-be-commissioned services based on the reportedservice optical performance data.

For another example, the transceiver unit 810 is configured to sendcommissioning information to the N commissioning stations T times, sothat the N commissioning stations perform parallel optical powercommissioning based on commissioning information received each time. Tis an integer greater than or equal to 1. The transceiver unit 810 isspecifically configured to feed back commissioning responses to thecontrol device after each time of optical power commissioning performedby the N commissioning stations, and the processing unit 820 is furtherconfigured to query real-time optical power information of the Mto-be-commissioned services and an affected service based on thecommissioning responses; or the transceiver unit 810 is configured tofeed back commissioning responses to the control device after the Ncommissioning stations perform a T1th time of optical powercommissioning, and the processing unit 820 is further configured toquery real-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissionedservices and an affected service based on the commissioning responses,where T1 is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to T; orthe transceiver unit 810 is configured to feed back a commissioningresponse to the control device after a cumulative adjustment amount ofany one of the N commissioning stations reaches a first threshold, andthe processing unit 820 is further configured to query real-time opticalpower information of the M to-be-commissioned services and an affectedservice based on the commissioning response; or the transceiver unit 810is configured to feed back commissioning responses to the control deviceafter a total cumulative adjustment amount of the N commissioningstations reaches a second threshold, and the processing unit 820 isfurther configured to query real-time optical power information of the Mto-be-commissioned services and an affected service based on thecommissioning responses.

For another example, the M to-be-commissioned services correspond to Xoptical multiplex sections OMSs. X is an integer greater than or equalto 1. The processing unit 820 is further configured to calculate atleast one of the following of each of the X OMSs: an absolute totalmultiplexed-wavelength adjustment amount, an absolute totalsingle-wavelength adjustment amount, and a relative adjustment amount ofeach commissioning station.

For another example, the processing unit 820 is further configured tocalculate at least one of the following information of each of the Ncommissioning stations: a multiplexed-wavelength optical poweradjustment amount and a single-wavelength optical power adjustmentamount.

For another example, the multiplexed-wavelength optical power adjustmentamount and/or the single-wavelength optical power adjustment amount meetor meets at least one of the following: optical power adjustmentamounts, on a same commissioning station, of to-be-commissioned servicespassing through a same OMS section in the M to-be-commissioned servicesare offset in positive and negative directions is less than or equal toa third threshold, and a co-directional cumulative optical poweradjustment amount of N1 commissioning stations is less than or equal toa fourth threshold. The N1 commissioning stations are commissioningstations on which a same to-be-commissioned service is located, the N1commissioning stations belong to the N commissioning stations, and N1 isan integer greater than or equal to 1.

For another example, the processing unit 820 is further configured bythe control device to calculate an optical power adjustment amount ofthe affected service based on degradation amounts of the affectedservice before and after the N commissioning stations performcommissioning. The affected service represents a service affected bycommissioning of the N commissioning stations.

For another example, the commissioning information includes at least oneof the following: an optical amplifier gain, an optical amplifier gainadjustment amount, information about the commissioning station, anelectrical variable optical attenuator loss value, an optical lossadjustment amount, a wavelength channel number of a to-be-commissionedwavelength, an optical power adjustment amount of the to-be-commissionedwavelength, a wavelength channel number of an affected wavelength, andan optical power adjustment amount of the affected wavelength.

In another design, the apparatus 800 is configured to perform actionsperformed by the control device in the foregoing embodiment shown inFIG. 4 . The processing unit 820 is configured to determine Mto-be-commissioned services on which optical power commissioning needsto be performed. M is an integer greater than or equal to 1. Thetransceiver unit 810 is configured to send commissioning information toN commissioning stations based on the M to-be-commissioned services. Thecommissioning information is used by the N commissioning stations toperform parallel optical power commissioning. The N commissioningstations are stations on which the M to-be-commissioned services arelocated, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

For example, the transceiver unit 810 is further configured to receiveservice optical performance data reported by W stations. W is an integergreater than or equal to 1. The processing unit 820 is configured todetermine the M to-be-commissioned services based on the service opticalperformance data reported by the W stations.

For another example, the transceiver unit 810 is configured to sendcommissioning information to the N commissioning stations T times, sothat the N commissioning stations perform parallel optical powercommissioning based on commissioning information received each time. Tis an integer greater than or equal to 1. After each time of opticalpower commissioning performed by the N commissioning stations, thetransceiver unit 810 is further configured to receive a commissioningresponse fed back by each commissioning station, and the processing unit820 is further configured to query real-time optical power informationof the M to-be-commissioned services and an affected service; or afterthe N commissioning stations perform a T1th time of optical powercommissioning, the transceiver unit 810 is further configured to receivea commissioning response fed back by each commissioning station, and theprocessing unit 820 is further configured to query real-time opticalpower information of the M to-be-commissioned services and an affectedservice, where T1 is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equal toT; or after a cumulative adjustment amount of any one of the Ncommissioning stations reaches a first threshold, the transceiver unit810 is further configured to receive a commissioning response fed backby each commissioning station, and the processing unit 820 is furtherconfigured to query real-time optical power information of the Mto-be-commissioned services and an affected service; or after a totalcumulative adjustment amount of the N commissioning stations reaches asecond threshold, the transceiver unit 810 is further configured toreceive a commissioning response fed back by each commissioning station,and the processing unit 820 is further configured to query real-timeoptical power information of the M to-be-commissioned services and anaffected service.

For another example, the M to-be-commissioned services correspond to Xoptical multiplex sections OMSs. X is an integer greater than or equalto 1. The processing unit 820 is further configured to calculate atleast one of the following of each of the X OMSs: an absolute totalmultiplexed-wavelength adjustment amount, an absolute totalsingle-wavelength adjustment amount, and a relative adjustment amount ofeach commissioning station.

For another example, the processing unit 820 is further configured tocalculate at least one of the following information of each of the Ncommissioning stations: a multiplexed-wavelength optical poweradjustment amount and a single-wavelength optical power adjustmentamount.

For another example, the multiplexed-wavelength optical power adjustmentamount and/or the single-wavelength optical power adjustment amount meetor meets at least one of the following: optical power adjustmentamounts, on a same commissioning station, of to-be-commissioned servicespassing through a same OMS section in the M to-be-commissioned servicesare offset in positive and negative directions is less than or equal toa third threshold, and a co-directional cumulative optical poweradjustment amount of N1 commissioning stations is less than or equal toa fourth threshold. The N1 commissioning stations are commissioningstations on which a same to-be-commissioned service is located, the N1commissioning stations belong to the N commissioning stations, and N1 isan integer greater than or equal to 1.

For another example, the processing unit 820 is further configured tocalculate an optical power adjustment amount of the affected servicebased on degradation amounts of the affected service before and afterthe N commissioning stations perform commissioning. The affected servicerepresents a service affected by commissioning of the N commissioningstations.

For another example, the commissioning information includes at least oneof the following: an optical amplifier gain, an optical amplifier gainadjustment amount, information about the commissioning station, anelectrical variable optical attenuator loss value, an optical lossadjustment amount, a wavelength channel number of a to-be-commissionedwavelength, an optical power adjustment amount of the to-be-commissionedwavelength, a wavelength channel number of an affected wavelength, andan optical power adjustment amount of the affected wavelength.

In still another design, the apparatus 800 is configured to performactions performed by the commissioning station in the foregoingembodiment shown in FIG. 4 . The transceiver unit 810 is configured toreport service optical performance data to a control device. Thetransceiver unit 810 is further configured to receive commissioninginformation from the control device. The commissioning information isused by N commissioning stations to perform parallel optical powercommissioning, the N commissioning stations include the commissioningstation, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The processingunit 820 is configured to perform optical power commissioning based onthe commissioning information.

For example, the transceiver unit 810 is configured to receivecommissioning information from the control device T times. T is aninteger greater than or equal to 1. After each time of optical powercommissioning performed by the commissioning station, the transceiverunit 810 is further configured to feed back a commissioning response tothe control device; or after the commissioning station performs a T1thtime of optical power commissioning, the transceiver unit 810 is furtherconfigured to feed back a commissioning response to the control device,where T1 is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equal to T; orafter a cumulative adjustment amount of the commissioning stationreaches a first threshold, the transceiver unit 810 is furtherconfigured to feed back a commissioning response to the control device.

For another example, the commissioning information includes at least oneof the following: an optical amplifier gain, an optical amplifier gainadjustment amount, information about the commissioning station, anelectrical variable optical attenuator loss value, an optical lossadjustment amount, a wavelength channel number of a to-be-commissionedwavelength, an optical power adjustment amount of the to-be-commissionedwavelength, a wavelength channel number of an affected wavelength, andan optical power adjustment amount of the affected wavelength.

The processing unit 820 in the foregoing embodiment may be implementedby at least one processor or processor related circuit. The transceiverunit 810 may be implemented by a transceiver or a transceiver relatedcircuit. The storage unit may be implemented by at least one memory.

As shown in FIG. 9 , an embodiment of this application further providesan optical power commissioning apparatus 900. The apparatus 900 includesa processor 910. The processor 910 is coupled to a memory 920, thememory 920 is configured to store a computer program or instructionsand/or data, and the processor 910 is configured to execute the computerprogram or the instructions and/or the data stored in the memory 920, sothat the methods in the foregoing method embodiments are performed.

Optionally, the apparatus 900 includes one or more processors 910.

Optionally, as shown in FIG. 9 , the apparatus 900 may further include amemory 920.

Optionally, the apparatus 900 may include one or more memories 920.

Optionally, the memory 920 and the processor 910 may be integratedtogether or separately disposed.

Optionally, as shown in FIG. 9 , the apparatus 900 may further include atransceiver 930, and the transceiver 930 is configured to receive and/orsend a signal. For example, the processor 910 is configured to controlthe transceiver 930 to receive and/or send a signal.

In a solution, the apparatus 900 is configured to implement operationsperformed by the control device in the foregoing method embodiments.

For example, the processor 910 is configured to implement processingrelated operations performed by the control device in the foregoingmethod embodiments, and the transceiver 930 is configured to implementreceiving/transmission related operations performed by the controldevice in the foregoing method embodiments.

In another solution, the apparatus 900 is configured to implementoperations performed by the commissioning station in the foregoingmethod embodiments.

For example, the processor 910 is configured to implement processingrelated operations performed by the commissioning station in theforegoing method embodiments, and the transceiver 930 is configured toimplement receiving/transmission related operations performed by thecommissioning station in the foregoing method embodiments.

As shown in FIG. 10 , an embodiment of this application further providesa control device 1000. The control device 1000 is configured toimplement operations performed by the control device in the foregoingmethod embodiments.

The control device 1000 includes a first apparatus 1010. For example,the first apparatus 1010 may be denoted as a NETWORK_OD apparatus.

Optionally, for example, the first apparatus 1010 may include fourmodules: an optical sensor module 1011, a commissioning data managementmodule 1012, an optimization algorithm module 1013, and an optimizationcontrol module 1014.

For example, the optical sensor module 1011 may collect and monitor anOMS (or OCH) optical performance parameter, and upload the opticalperformance parameter to the commissioning data management module. Forexample, the optical sensor module 1011 may be configured to implementstep 401, step 1, and step A.

For example, the commissioning data management module 1012 may implementdata concatenation (for example, depending on a network topologyrelationship), data lifecycle management (on real-time data orhistorical data), or data cleaning or preprocessing.

For example, the optimization algorithm module 1013 may model theoptical-performance physical parameter to calculate some commissioninginformation such as target optical power of a to-be-commissionedservice, an optimal adjustment step of the to-be-commissioned service,and an adjustment amount of each old wavelength in affected services,and provide the commissioning information for the optimization controlmodule for parallel commissioning. For example, the optimizationalgorithm module 1013 may be configured to implement step 420, step 3 tostep 7, and step C to step F.

For example, the optimization control module 1014 may automaticallyidentify batch performance-degraded services, and control a plurality ofrounds of multi-service and multi-fault parallel commissioning fornetwork elements. For example, the optimization control module 1014 maybe configured to implement step 401, step 420, step 2, step 6, step B,and step E.

Optionally, the optical sensor module 1011, the commissioning datamanagement module 1012, the optimization algorithm module 1013, and theoptimization control module 1014 may be implemented by using software,may be implemented by using hardware, or may be implemented by usinghardware and software. In addition, the optical sensor module 1011, thecommissioning data management module 1012, the optimization algorithmmodule 1013, and the optimization control module 1014 may be differentchips, or may be integrated into one chip or integrated circuit.

Optionally, in the foregoing embodiment, the optical sensor module 1011,the commissioning data management module 1012, the optimizationalgorithm module 1013, and the optimization control module 1014 may beimplemented by using processors or processor related circuits.

It should be understood that the optical sensor module 1011, thecommissioning data management module 1012, the optimization algorithmmodule 1013, and the optimization control module 1014 are obtainedthrough division based on different functions. However, this should notconstitute any limitation on this application.

Optionally, the control device 1000 may further include a secondapparatus 1020. For example, the second apparatus 1020 may be denoted asa PCEP control apparatus.

For example, the second apparatus 1020 may be configured to controlreporting of a real-time optical performance resource of a network anddelivery of an adjustment amount. The second apparatus can ensure thatthe real-time optical performance resource is automatically sent to theNETWORK_OD apparatus (namely, the first apparatus 1010).

Optionally, the first apparatus 1010 and the second apparatus 1020 maybe implemented by using software, may be implemented by using hardware,or may be implemented by using hardware and software. In addition, thefirst apparatus 1010 and the second apparatus 1020 may be differentchips, or may be integrated into one chip or integrated circuit.

Optionally, in the foregoing embodiment, both the first apparatus 1010and the second apparatus 1020 may be implemented by using processors orprocessor related circuits.

As shown in FIG. 11 , an embodiment of this application further providesa commissioning station 1100. The commissioning station 1100 isconfigured to implement operations performed by the commissioningstation in the foregoing method embodiments.

The commissioning station 1100 includes a third apparatus 1110. Forexample, the third apparatus 1110 may be denoted as an NE_OD apparatus.

For example, the third apparatus 1110 may be used for network elementcommissioning performance data management and network elementcommissioning control. Network element commissioning performance datamanagement is millisecond optical performance data collection of adevice board and management of optical performance data of an opticalcomponent in a network element service. Network element commissioningcontrol is executing and responding to a network element commissioningaction. The third apparatus can collect millisecond optical performancedata in real time, and provide network real-time data for an automatedsystem. For example, the third apparatus 1110 may be configured toimplement step 401, step 1, and step A.

Optionally, the commissioning station 1100 may further include a secondapparatus 1120. For example, the second apparatus 1120 may be configuredto control reporting of a real-time optical performance resource of anetwork and delivery of an adjustment amount. The second apparatus canensure that the real-time optical performance resource is automaticallysent to the NETWORK_OD apparatus (namely, the third apparatus).

Optionally, the third apparatus 1110 and the second apparatus 1120 maybe implemented by using software, may be implemented by using hardware,or may be implemented by using hardware and software. In addition, thethird apparatus 1110 and the second apparatus 1120 may be differentchips, or may be integrated into one chip or integrated circuit.

Optionally, in the foregoing embodiment, both the third apparatus 1110and the second apparatus 1120 may be implemented by using processors orprocessor related circuits.

An embodiment of this application further provides an optical powercommissioning device 1200.

In a design, the device 1200 may be a control device or a chip. In thisdesign, the device 1200 may be configured to perform operationsperformed by the control device in the foregoing method embodiments.

In another design, the device 1200 may be a commissioning station (forexample, a network element) or a chip. In this design, the device 1200may be configured to perform operations performed by the commissioningstation in the foregoing method embodiments.

As shown in FIG. 12 , the device 1200 may include a tributary board1201, a cross-connect board 1202, a line board 1203, an optical layerprocessing board (not shown in the figure), and a system control andcommunication board 1204. The device may include different types ofboards of different quantities based on a specific requirement. Forexample, a device serving as a core node may include no tributary board1201. For another example, a device serving as an edge node may includea plurality of tributary boards 1201, or include no opticalcross-connect board 1202. For still another example, a device supportingonly an electrical layer function may include no optical layerprocessing board.

The tributary board 1201, the cross-connect board 1202, and the lineboard 1203 may be configured to process an electrical layer signal of anoptical transport network (OTN). The tributary board 1201 is configuredto receive and send various customer services such as a packet service,an Ethernet service, and a forward service. Still further, the tributaryboard 1201 may be divided into an optical module on a client side and asignal processor. The optical module on the client side may be anoptical transceiver, configured to receive and/or send service data. Thesignal processor is configured to map service data to a data frame anddemap the service data from the data frame. The cross-connect board 1202may be configured to exchange data frames, to complete exchanging one ormore types of data frames. The line board 1203 may be configured toprocess a data frame on a line side. For example, the line board 1203may be divided into an optical module on the line side and a signalprocessor. The optical module on the line side may be an opticaltransceiver on the line side, configured to receive and/or send a dataframe. The signal processor is configured to multiplex and demultiplex adata frame on the line side, or map and demap a data frame on the lineside. The system control and communication board 1204 is configured toimplement system control. Specifically, the system control andcommunication board 1204 may collect information from different boardsby using a backplane or send a control instruction to a correspondingboard. It should be noted that, unless otherwise specified, there may beone or more specific components (for example, signal processors). Thisis not limited in this application. It should be further noted that atype of a board included in the device, a function design of the board,and a quantity of boards are not limited in this application. It shouldbe noted that during specific implementation, two boards mentioned abovemay be designed as one board. In addition, the device may furtherinclude a standby power supply, a heat dissipation fan, and the like.

For example, when the device 1200 is a control device, in animplementation, the line board 1203 may be configured to performprocessing actions on a control device side in FIG. 4 to FIG. 7 . Thecommunication board 1204 may be configured to performreceiving/transmission operations on the control device side in FIG. 4to FIG. 7 .

For another example, when the device 1200 is a commissioning station, inan implementation, the line board 1203 may be configured to performprocessing actions on a commissioning station side in FIG. 4 to FIG. 7 .The communication board 1204 may be configured to performreceiving/transmission operations on the commissioning station side inFIG. 4 to FIG. 7 .

It should be understood that FIG. 12 is merely an example instead of alimitation. The foregoing control device or commissioning stationincluding a transceiver unit and a processing unit may not depend on thestructure shown in FIG. 12 .

When the device 1200 is a chip, the chip includes a transceiver unit anda processing unit. The transceiver unit may be an input/output circuitor a communication interface. The processing unit may be a processor, amicroprocessor, or an integrated circuit integrated on the chip.

An embodiment of this application further provides a computer-readablestorage medium. The computer-readable storage medium stores computerinstructions used to implement the method performed by the controldevice or the method performed by the commissioning station in theforegoing method embodiments.

For example, when the computer instructions are executed by a computer,the computer can implement the method performed by the control device orthe method performed by the commissioning station in the foregoingmethod embodiments.

An embodiment of this application further provides a computer programproduct including instructions. When the instructions are executed by acomputer, the computer implements the method performed by the controldevice or the method performed by the commissioning station in theforegoing method embodiments.

An embodiment of this application further provides a commissioningsystem. The system includes the control device and the commissioningstation in the foregoing embodiments.

It may be clearly understood by a person skilled in the art that, forconvenience and brevity of description, for explanation and beneficialeffects of related content in any apparatus provided above, refer to theforegoing corresponding method embodiments, and details are notdescribed herein again.

In embodiments of this application, the control device or thecommissioning station may include a hardware layer, an operating systemlayer running above the hardware layer, and an application layer runningabove the operating system layer. The hardware layer includes hardwaresuch as a central processing unit (CPU), a memory management unit (MMU),and a memory (also referred to as a main memory). An operating system onthe operating system layer may be any one or more computer operatingsystems that implement service processing through a process, forexample, a Linux operating system, a Unix operating system, an Androidoperating system, an iOS operating system, or a Windows operatingsystem. The application layer includes applications such as a browser,an address book, word processing software, and instant messagingsoftware.

Embodiments of this application set no particular limitation on aspecific structure of an execution body of the method provided inembodiments of this application, provided that a program that recordscode of the method provided in embodiments of this application can berun to perform communication according to the method provided inembodiments of this application. For example, the method provided inembodiments of this application may be performed by a control device ora commissioning station, or may be a functional module that can invoke aprogram and execute the program in the control device or thecommissioning station.

Aspects or features of this application may be implemented as a method,an apparatus, or a product that uses standard programming and/orengineering technologies. The term “product” used in this applicationmay cover a computer program that can be accessed from anycomputer-readable component, carrier, or medium.

The computer-readable storage medium may be any usable medium accessibleby a computer, or a data storage device, such as a server or a datacenter, integrating one or more usable media. For example, the usablemedia (or computer readable media) may include but is not limited to amagnetic medium or a magnetic storage component (for example, a floppydisk, a hard disk (for example, a removable hard disk), or a magnetictape), an optical medium (for example, an optical disc, a compact disc(CD), or a digital versatile disk (DVD)), a smart card, a flash memorycomponent (for example, an erasable programmable read-only memory(EPROM), a card, a stick, or a key drive), a semiconductor medium (forexample, a solid-state drive (SSD)), a USB flash drive, a read-onlymemory (ROM), or a random access memory (RAM) that may store programcode.

Various storage media described in this specification may indicate oneor more devices and/or other machine-readable media that are configuredto store information. The term “machine-readable media” may include butis not limited to a wireless channel, and various other media that canstore, include, and/or carry instructions and/or data.

It should be understood that, the processor in embodiments of thisapplication may be a central processing unit (CPU), or may be anothergeneral-purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), anapplication-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmablegate array (FPGA) or another programmable logic device, a discrete gateor transistor logic device, a discrete hardware component, or the like.The general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, or the processormay be any conventional processor or the like.

It may be further understood that the memory mentioned in embodiments ofthis application may be a volatile memory or a nonvolatile memory, ormay include a volatile memory and a nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatilememory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a programmable read-only memory(PROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), anelectrically erasable programmable read-only memory (Electrically EPROM,EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory may be a random accessmemory (RAM). For example, the RAM may be used as an external cache. Byway of example and not limitation, the RAM may include the followingplurality of forms: a static random access memory (SRAM), a dynamicrandom access memory (DRAM), a synchronous dynamic random access memory(SDRAM), a double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory(DDR SDRAM), an enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory(ESDRAM), a synchlink dynamic random access memory (SLDRAM), and adirect rambus random access memory (DR RAM).

It should be noted that when the processor is a general-purposeprocessor, a DSP, an ASIC, an FPGA, or another programmable logicdevice, discrete gate or transistor logic device, or discrete hardwarecomponent, the memory (a storage module) may be integrated into theprocessor.

It should be further noted that the memory described in thisspecification is to include but is not limited to these memories and amemory of any other proper type.

In the several embodiments provided in this application, it should beunderstood that the disclosed apparatuses and methods may be implementedin other manners. For example, the described apparatus embodiments aremerely examples. For example, the unit division is merely logicalfunction division and may be other division during actualimplementation. For example, a plurality of units or components may becombined or integrated into another system, or some features may beignored or not performed. In addition, the displayed or discussed mutualcouplings or direct couplings or communication connections may beimplemented by using some interfaces. The indirect couplings orcommunication connections between the apparatuses or units may beimplemented in electronic, mechanical, or other forms.

The foregoing units described as separate parts may or may not bephysically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not bephysical units, may be located in one position, or may be distributed ona plurality of network units. Some or all of the units may be selectedbased on an actual requirement to implement the solutions provided inthis application.

In addition, functional units in embodiments of this application may beintegrated into one processing unit, each of the units may exist alonephysically, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit.

All or some of the foregoing embodiments may be implemented by usingsoftware, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof.

When software is used to implement the embodiments, all or a part of theembodiments may be implemented in a form of a computer program product.The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions.When the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on acomputer, the procedure or functions according to embodiments of thisapplication are completely or partially generated. The computer may be ageneral-purpose computer, a dedicated computer, a computer network, oranother programmable apparatus. For example, the computer may be apersonal computer, a server, or a network device. The computerinstructions may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium or maybe transmitted from a computer-readable storage medium to anothercomputer-readable storage medium. For example, the computer instructionsmay be transmitted from a website, computer, server, or data center toanother website, computer, server, or data center in a wired (forexample, a coaxial cable, an optical fiber, or a digital subscriber line(DSL)) or wireless (for example, infrared, radio, or microwave) manner.For the computer-readable storage medium, refer to the foregoingdescriptions.

The foregoing descriptions are merely specific implementations of thisapplication, but are not intended to limit the protection scope of thisapplication. Any variation or replacement readily figured out by aperson skilled in the art within the technical scope disclosed in thisapplication shall fall within the protection scope of this application.Therefore, the protection scope of this application shall be subject tothe protection scope of the claims and this specification.

What is claimed is:
 1. An optical power commissioning method,comprising: determining, by a control device, M to-be-commissionedservices on which optical power commissioning needs to be performed,wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and sending, by thecontrol device, commissioning information to N commissioning stationsbased on the M to-be-commissioned services, wherein the N commissioningstations perform parallel optical power commissioning based on thecommissioning information; wherein the N commissioning stations arestations on which the M to-be-commissioned services are located, andwherein N is an integer greater than or equal to
 1. 2. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: receiving,by the control device, service optical performance data reported by Wstations, wherein W is an integer greater than or equal to 1; andwherein the determining, by a control device, M to-be-commissionedservices on which optical power commissioning needs to be performedcomprises determining, by the control device, the M to-be-commissionedservices based on the service optical performance data reported by the Wstations.
 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sending, bythe control device, commissioning information to N commissioningstations comprises: sending, by the control device, commissioninginformation to the N commissioning stations T times, wherein the Ncommissioning stations perform parallel optical power commissioningbased on commissioning information received each time, and wherein T isan integer greater than or equal to 1; and wherein the method furthercomprises at least one of: receiving, after each time of optical powercommissioning performed by the N commissioning stations, a commissioningresponse fed back by each commissioning station, and querying real-timeoptical power information of the M to-be-commissioned services and anaffected service; receiving, after the N commissioning stations performa T1^(th) time of optical power commissioning, a commissioning responsefed back by each commissioning station, and querying real-time opticalpower information of the M to-be-commissioned services and an affectedservice, wherein T1 is an integer greater than 1 and less than or equalto T; receiving, after a cumulative adjustment amount of any one of theN commissioning stations reaches a first threshold, a commissioningresponse fed back by each commissioning station, and querying real-timeoptical power information of the M to-be-commissioned services and anaffected service; or receiving, after a total cumulative adjustmentamount of the N commissioning stations reaches a second threshold, acommissioning response fed back by each commissioning station, andquerying real-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissionedservices and an affected service.
 4. The method according to claim 1,wherein the M to-be-commissioned services correspond to X opticalmultiplex sections (OMSs), and wherein X is an integer greater than orequal to 1; and before the sending, by the control device, commissioninginformation to N commissioning stations, the method further comprisescalculating, by the control device, for each of the X OMSs, at least oneof an absolute total multiplexed-wavelength adjustment amount, anabsolute total single-wavelength adjustment amount, or a relativeadjustment amount of each commissioning station.
 5. The method accordingto claim 1, wherein the method further comprises, before the sending, bythe control device, commissioning information to the N commissioningstations: calculating, by the control device, for each of the Ncommissioning stations, at least one of a multiplexed-wavelength opticalpower adjustment amount or a single-wavelength optical power adjustmentamount.
 6. The method according to claim 5, wherein at least one of themultiplexed-wavelength optical power adjustment amount or thesingle-wavelength optical power adjustment amount meets at least one of:optical power adjustment amounts, on a same commissioning station, ofto-be-commissioned services passing through a same OMS section in the Mto-be-commissioned services are offset in positive and negativedirections that is less than or equal to a third threshold; or aco-directional cumulative optical power adjustment amount of N1commissioning stations is less than or equal to a fourth threshold,wherein the N1 commissioning stations are commissioning stations onwhich a same to-be-commissioned service is located, the N1 commissioningstations are a subset of the N commissioning stations, and N1 is aninteger greater than or equal to
 1. 7. The method according to claim 1,wherein the method further comprises: calculating, by the controldevice, an optical power adjustment amount of an affected service basedon degradation amounts of the affected service before and aftercommissioning of the N commissioning stations, wherein the affectedservice represents a service affected by commissioning of the Ncommissioning stations.
 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein thecommissioning information comprises at least one of an optical amplifiergain, an optical amplifier gain adjustment amount, information about thecommissioning station, an electrical variable optical attenuator lossvalue, an optical loss adjustment amount, a wavelength channel number ofa to-be-commissioned wavelength, an optical power adjustment amount ofthe to-be-commissioned wavelength, a wavelength channel number of anaffected wavelength, or an optical power adjustment amount of theaffected wavelength.
 9. An optical power commissioning method,comprising: reporting, by a commissioning station, service opticalperformance data to a control device; receiving, by the commissioningstation, commissioning information from the control device, wherein thecommissioning information is used by N commissioning stations to performparallel optical power commissioning, the N commissioning stationscomprise the commissioning station, and N is an integer greater than orequal to 1; and performing, by the commissioning station, optical powercommissioning based on the commissioning information.
 10. The methodaccording to claim 9, wherein the receiving, by the commissioningstation, commissioning information from the control device comprisesreceiving, by the commissioning station, commissioning information fromthe control device T times, wherein T is an integer greater than orequal to 1; and wherein the method further comprises at least one of:feeding back a commissioning response to the control device after eachtime of optical power commissioning performed by the commissioningstation; feeding back a commissioning response to the control deviceafter the commissioning station performs a T1^(th) time of optical powercommissioning, wherein T1 is an integer greater than 1 and less than orequal to T; or feeding back a commissioning response to the controldevice after a cumulative adjustment amount of the commissioning stationreaches a first threshold.
 11. The method according to claim 9, whereinthe commissioning information comprises at least one of an opticalamplifier gain, an optical amplifier gain adjustment amount, informationabout the commissioning station, an electrical variable opticalattenuator loss value, an optical loss adjustment amount, a wavelengthchannel number of a to-be-commissioned wavelength, an optical poweradjustment amount of the to-be-commissioned wavelength, a wavelengthchannel number of an affected wavelength, or an optical power adjustmentamount of the affected wavelength.
 12. A commissioning system,comprising a control device configured to: determine Mto-be-commissioned services on which optical power commissioning needsto be performed, wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 1; andsend commissioning information to N commissioning stations based on theM to-be-commissioned services, wherein the commissioning information isused by the N commissioning stations to perform parallel optical powercommissioning, the N commissioning stations are stations on which the Mto-be-commissioned services are located, and N is an integer greaterthan or equal to 1; and N commissioning stations configured to: performoptical power commissioning based on the commissioning information. 13.The commissioning system according to claim 12, wherein the controldevice is further configured to receive service optical performance datareported by W stations, wherein W is an integer greater than or equal to1; and the control device is configured to determine the Mto-be-commissioned services based on the service optical performancedata reported by the W stations.
 14. The commissioning system accordingto claim 12, wherein the control device is further configured to sendcommissioning information to the N commissioning stations T times,wherein the N commissioning stations perform parallel optical powercommissioning based on commissioning information received each time, andwherein T is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and wherein the Ncommissioning stations are further configured to at least one of: feedback commissioning responses to the control device after each time ofoptical power commissioning, and the control device is furtherconfigured to query real-time optical power information of the Mto-be-commissioned services and an affected service based on thecommissioning responses; feed back commissioning responses to thecontrol device after a T1^(th) time of optical power commissioning, andthe control device is further configured to query real-time opticalpower information of the M to-be-commissioned services and an affectedservice based on the commissioning responses, wherein T1 is an integergreater than 1 and less than or equal to T; or feed back commissioningresponses to the control device after a total cumulative adjustmentamount reaches a second threshold, and the control device is furtherconfigured to query real-time optical power information of the Mto-be-commissioned services and an affected service based on thecommissioning responses; or wherein any one of the N commissioningstations is further configured to feed back a commissioning response tothe control device after a cumulative adjustment amount reaches a firstthreshold, and the control device is further configured to queryreal-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissioned servicesand an affected service based on the commissioning response.
 15. Acontrol device, comprising: a processor configured to determine Mto-be-commissioned services on which optical power commissioning needsto be performed, wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 1; anda transceiver configured to send commissioning information to Ncommissioning stations based on the M to-be-commissioned services,wherein the commissioning information is used by the N commissioningstations to perform parallel optical power commissioning; wherein the Ncommissioning stations are stations on which the M to-be-commissionedservices are located, and wherein N is an integer greater than or equalto
 1. 16. The control device according to claim 15, wherein thetransceiver is further configured to receive service optical performancedata reported by W stations, wherein W is an integer greater than orequal to 1; and the processor is configured to determine the Mto-be-commissioned services based on the service optical performancedata reported by the W stations.
 17. The control device according toclaim 15, wherein the transceiver is further configured to sendcommissioning information to the N commissioning stations T times,wherein the N commissioning stations perform parallel optical powercommissioning based on commissioning information received each time, andwherein T is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and wherein thetransceiver is configured to at least one of: receive, after each timeof optical power commissioning performed by the N commissioningstations, a commissioning response fed back by each commissioningstation, and the processor is configured to query real-time opticalpower information of the M to-be-commissioned services and an affectedservice; receive, after the N commissioning stations perform a T1^(th)time of optical power commissioning, a commissioning response fed backby each commissioning station, and the processor is configured to queryreal-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissioned servicesand an affected service, wherein T1 is an integer greater than 1 andless than or equal to T; receive, after a cumulative adjustment amountof any one of the N commissioning stations reaches a first threshold, acommissioning response fed back by each commissioning station, and theprocessor is configured to query real-time optical power information ofthe M to-be-commissioned services and an affected service; or receiveafter a total cumulative adjustment amount of the N commissioningstations reaches a second threshold, a commissioning response fed backby each commissioning station, and the processor is configured to queryreal-time optical power information of the M to-be-commissioned servicesand an affected service.
 18. The control device according to claim 15,wherein the M to-be-commissioned services correspond to X opticalmultiplex sections (OMSs), and wherein X is an integer greater than orequal to 1; and wherein the processor is further configured to, beforethe sending, by the transceiver, commissioning information to Ncommissioning stations, for each of the X OMSs, calculate at least onean absolute total multiplexed-wavelength adjustment amount, an absolutetotal single-wavelength adjustment amount, or a relative adjustmentamount of each commissioning station.
 19. The control device accordingto claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to, before the sending,by the transceiver, commissioning information to the N commissioningstations, for each of the N commissioning stations, calculate at leastone of a multiplexed-wavelength optical power adjustment amount or asingle-wavelength optical power adjustment amount.
 20. The controldevice according to claim 19, wherein at least one of themultiplexed-wavelength optical power adjustment amount or thesingle-wavelength optical power adjustment amount meets at least one of:optical power adjustment amounts, on a same commissioning station, ofto-be-commissioned services passing through a same OMS section in the Mto-be-commissioned services are offset in positive and negativedirections that is less than or equal to a third threshold; and aco-directional cumulative optical power adjustment amount of N1commissioning stations is less than or equal to a fourth threshold,wherein the N1 commissioning stations are commissioning stations onwhich a same to-be-commissioned service is located, the N1 commissioningstations are a subset of the N commissioning stations, and N1 is aninteger greater than or equal to 1.